I am Nitin, a software engineer. I’ve spent years working hard to provide for my family. My parents, now in their late 60s, have always been my priority. But over the last year, their health took a ...

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When a lake is covered with green scums during a warm summer, cyanobacteria - often called blue-green algae - are usually involved. Mass development of such cyanobacteria is bad for water quality ...

Lichens were already widespread more than 410 million years ago, according to a new international study that identifies a fossil from Brazil as one of the oldest lichen in Earth's history. The team ...

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In a recently published article in the journal Cells, scientists have provided a detailed description of the utility of mannose-specific lectins in preventing coronavirus infections. They have ...

Not every biologist is fortunate enough to discover two new species on the very campus where they teach, but Florida Gulf Coast University professor and researcher William Sanders did just that ...

I got my botany degree two years ago, so I could be out of date, but I was taught that Phytophthora was a fungus (14 September, p 9). The Editor replies: • Phytophthora were traditionally ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding evidence of their influence on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. The study, ...

Often mistaken for primitive plants such as moss (if they are even noticed in the first place), lichens are actually not plants at all. They are a group of versatile symbiotic life-forms that play ...

When a lake is covered with green scums during a warm summer, cyanobacteria -- often called blue-green algae -- are usually involved. Mass development of cyanobacteria is bad for water quality. But ...