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Rant

Potter's science paper to be presented to society that rejected it in 1897 because she was a woman

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An orange-coloured goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not millions of microscopic eggs as indicated by a preliminary analysis.

Falling in love, they say, is like eating an unknown mushroom. You never know it's the real thing until it is too late. This summer is already producing crops of wild mushrooms – ceps, chanterelles, summer truffles and other delicious kinds, which are appearing in profusion in the warm, damp woodland soil.

Some trees are so imposing that it is hard to believe that they can get sick and die.

America's bats are dying in record numbers because of a deadly fungus that thrives where they sleep. Now there are signs that it could happen here

Twelve castrated male reindeer, 12 canaries, reindeer urine, fly agaric mushrooms and two houseflies of indeterminate sex. So reads the list of materials used in Carsten Höller's latest exhibition, SOMA, at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin.

It's also a useful way to prepare the garden for winter

How a gastropod helped a writer cope with illness

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A virulent and deadly pathogen in America is exterminating a predator that is vital to farmers for controlling insect pests