The familiar mushrooms found on pizzas and in the lawn are part of a group of fungi called club fungi, or basidiomycetes. The phylum Basidiomycota consists of 16,000 different species of fungi, including the shelf or bracket fungi found on…
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The “baby boomer” generation consists of approximately 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. As members of this generation start to reach/pass the age of retirement, the strain on federal assistance programs and health care systems will continue to…
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Sufficed to say that at this point most rational people will admit there’s at least a remote possibility that life exists beyond Earth’s confines. There are no doubt exceptions, though some of the most unlikely probabilities conceivable would be necessary…
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A recent article in the UK’s Daily Telegraph bemoaned the possible extinction of up to one-third of the lifeforms on Earth. [Third of plants and animals ‘at risk of extinction’] But articles like these overlook the emerging bio-technologies of the…
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Protozoa, single celled animals have evolved to exploit every ecological niche. Some are free living while others are parasitic and capable of causing severe, sometimes life-threatening, infection. A number of parasitic protozoa are intracellular parasites living within other cells. One…
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If you were to take a survey to determine who in vented the computer, Bill Gates would likely be the most popular answer, followed perhaps by Apple cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Wrong. In fact, the computer is one…
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Here exists the long standing question, to find the answer is currently the historical “holy grail” and motivating desire of many branches of science and pseudo-science—shared by competing teams from different sectors of planet earth-a question posed by many thinking…
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There are many difficulties that a microscope user might encounter before even trying to see the specimen. Dirty lenses and problems controlling the light source are common. Here is how to avoid these frustrating scope issues. * Clean All Lenses…
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We are asked to determine whether the race of humans, the modern species of human beings, Homo sapiens, is now in the process of evolving, that is to say moving toward a higher level of development, or devolving, moving inexorably…
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We hear a lot about high and low pressure areas on the daily weather forecast. And while we might not totally understand what this means, or the significance, most of us recognize that low pressure usually means some sort of…
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