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The Secret Lives of Mushroom Hunters
Langdon Cook's new book, the Mushroom Hunters, delves into the secretive and sometimes dangerous subculture of mushrooming.
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Mushrooms can change the weather, scientists reveal
The fungi can whip up winds that blow away their spores and help them disperse
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Chanterelle Mushroom in the Wild
Stumbled into this specimen while mushroom picking in the luscious forests of British Columbia.
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Grow your own delicious mushrooms
A look at different growing methods and varieties enabling you to pick your own edible fungus at home.
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10 Secrets To Finding The Best Wild Mushrooms
From knowing where to find mushrooms to knowing how to clean and store them, mushroom hunters can benefit from these 10 expert tips.
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Women who sniff this Hawaiian mushroom have spontaneous orgasms
According to a 2001 publication in the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, the smell of the fresh fungus can trigger spontaneous orgasms in human females. In the trial involving 16 women, 6 had orgasms while smelling the fruit body, and the other ten, who received smaller doses, experienced physiological changes such as increased heart rate. All of the 20 men tested considered the smell disgusting.
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How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?
A huge number of parasites can change the behavior of the organisms they infect. In some cases, parasites can even make their hosts display completely new behaviors. We understand very little about the mechanisms and pathways behind this interaction. To learn more, we investigated how a specific fungus changes the behavior of ants... By Charissa de Bekker.
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The Year in Fungi
Five mycological highlights from 2015, including banana killers, rainmakers, and the zombie cure. By Nicola Twilley.
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Coyotes High On Mushrooms Possibly To Blame For Strange Incidents On Highway
Coyotes tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms is one explanation experts are giving for some strange incidents in the North Bay. According to the Pacific Sun, a coyote has reportedly been jumping onto Highway 1 in the Bolinas area in the dead of night and staring down cars. The coyote then sniffs around the car before running back into the brush. “It’s a terrifying, yet beautiful thing to behold,” said one of the drivers who was confronted by a coyote.
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Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60% of their cells remained intact, with stable DNA...
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Sniffing Out The Truth About Hawai’i’s Orgasm-Inducing Mushroom
One woman's quest to find the fabled fungus said to elicit orgasms in women by scent alone. Is the mysterious Hawaiian mushroom just a myth? By Christie Wilcox. (Feb. 14)
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Ikea to use packaging made from mushrooms that will decompose in a garden within weeks
Ikea is planning to use packaging made with mushrooms as an eco-friendly replacement for polystyrene. The furniture retailer is looking at using the biodegradable mycelium “fungi packaging” as part of its efforts to reduce waste and increase recycling, Joanna Yarrow, head of sustainability for Ikea in the U.K., said.
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Mushroom foraging is deadly. Why am I doing it?
Like the deadly pufferfish, wild mushrooms are for culinary daredevils. Care to play Russian roulette with your dinner? By Cal Flyn.
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Lucky bug eluded eternal entombment in 50 million-year-old amber
A chunk of amber found along the Baltic Sea in Russia provides evidence roughly 50 million years old of an extremely fortunate bug. By Will Dunham.
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Two’s Company, Three’s a Lichen?
New research challenges the one fungus-one alga paradigm of how lichens form. By Steph Yin.
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The Wild World of Mushroom Hunting
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Documentary - The Magic of Mushrooms
Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it. In a specially built mushroom lab, with the help of mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey and some state-of-the-art technology, Richard brings to life the secret world of mushrooms as never seen before and reveals the spectacular abilities of fungi to break down waste and sustain new plant life, keeping our planet alive.
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Giant Genetic Map Shows Life’s Hidden Links
In a monumental set of experiments, spread out over nearly two decades, biologists removed genes two at a time to uncover the secret workings of the cell. By Veronique Greenwood.
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First 13 cases of deadly fungal infection emerge in US
Thirteen cases of a sometimes deadly and often drug-resistant fungal infection, Candida auris, have been reported in the United States for the first time, health officials said Friday. (Nov. 4, 2016)
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The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms
A landmark pair of studies shows that giving people with depression and anxiety magic mushrooms made them better for months. By Olga Khazan.
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