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Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

It is the only surviving large-scale drawing by Leonardo and is among the finest works on paper to survive from Renaissance Italy. Superficially the Burlington House Cartoon and the Mona Lisa ...

Okay? Well, why was daddy laughing? Daddy don't know what he's doing anyway. That's how- That's how you say that's- That's a great drawing in French. A month later, on July 17th, Sonia Tiebi posted ...

Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee, the Vatican has launched a cartoon mascot unveiled Monday ... 3 of Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 5” and an art exhibit of Marc Chagall’s “White Crucifixion ...

Nature is where we can find real examples of zombification – one organism controlling another organism’s behavior. I study fungi, a huge biological kingdom that includes molds, mildews, yeasts, ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

A new study claims that fungi possess great intelligence to the point that they can make decisions. A group of scientists tested how fungi would grow across patterns of blocks, and found that they ...

Adriana Morrell thinks fungi have a lot of secret abilities, and in her lab at Lethbridge Polytechnic, she's busy trying to find out what they are. "It's all about starting to think about this ...

Fungi, for example, are neither plants nor animals. This fact could be holding back their conservation. That is because policies and legislation aimed at protecting the natural world are often ...