Fungi might just be the most impressive form of life on Earth. They can live almost anywhere, have both medicinal and poisonous qualities, and are—as new research suggests—capable of transforming industrial waste into useful compounds. Engineers with the German startup Biophelion have successfully developed a method to coax a yeast-like black fungus—Aureobasidium pullulans—into decomposing and […]
You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic
Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account for all the plastic ever produced. A new study has just tracked down a large portion of it. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for […]