Like many microbes, there are helpful fungi and harmful fungi. When harmful fungi invade the body, they can be difficult to kill, as they can survive in the environment and re-infect the person ...

Israel and Hamas agreed on the first draft of a ceasefire deal on Wednesday (January 15, 2025), signalling the biggest step yet toward an end to the conflict. Among other things, the 60-day ...

TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission in what is thought to be an instance of ...

The current approach for diagnosing obesity – one defined solely by an individual’s body mass index – is inadequate. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the definition and diagnostic ...

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Most fungi don’t handle the heat all too well – for now, at least (Picture: Getty/AP) Don’t worry, there’s next to no chance of this ever happening, scientists have stressed. Any mind ...

Fungi could be used to power batteries in remote regions thanks to a new breakthrough by Swiss researchers. Their fungal battery invention is 3D-printed - with fungal cells mixed into the printing ...

“Mycelium is comparable to the root structure of plants, although fungi are actually not plants,” Dr Loes van Dam, researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, told Euronews Nex ...

If our solar system were to lose a few moons or even a planet, the difference might be hard to notice—but lose the sun, and everything changes. Despite its role as neighborhood linchpin, however ...

The exciting scientific developments present threats as well as opportunities. Dozens of leading researchers including two Nobel Prize winners have warned of the potentially catastrophic impact of ...