Yes, the fungus is among us. The video game-inspired hit zombie apocalypse show “The Last of Us” draws its inspiration from our own reality and ecology: The show’s fatal fungus exists throughout nature. The communicative zombie-inducing network of cordyceps — which have Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) fighting for their lives on the … Read more
How the tides have turned. An unlikely pair of culprits have been scaring great white sharks away from the coast of South Africa for years, according to scientists who began noticing the absence of the dreaded apex predator along the country’s Western Cape — known as the global “Great White Capital” — back in 2017. … Read more
These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history. A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by tourist Adar Leibovitch in Arizona recently. The 29-year-old computer engineer from Israel spotted the so-called “living fossil” at the landmark rock formation the Wave, … Read more
Now you see them, now you don’t. Some frogs found in South and Central America have the rare ability to turn on and off their nearly transparent appearance, researchers report Thursday in the journal Science. During the day, these nocturnal frogs sleep by hanging underneath tree leaves. Their delicate, greenish transparent forms don’t cast shadows, rendering … Read more
It’s breathtaking footage. An astonishing new video shows plants “breathing” in real-time — and the footage could have huge implications for how farmers feed the world in the future. The close-up clip was captured by biologists at the University of California San Diego during research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. While filming the … Read more
Burnt out on your go-to winter travel destinations? We bet you are. After all, it’s a new post-COVID world and that means that it’s time to shake things up. Whether it’s for holiday family fun, glitzy New Year’s Eve shenanigans, winter sun, fun on the slopes, an urban artsy scene, immersion in nature or hiking, … Read more
The just-opened Wildflower Farms, an Auberge resort set on a former tree nursery in pastoral Gardiner, NY, is luring affluent urbanites with its luxurious rustic delights. “Last week, this was a loading dock. This week, it’s alive,” says general manager Manolo Sorensen, formerly of André Balazs’ Sunset Beach Hotel on Shelter Island and The Maker … Read more
It’s not the gig for people who love to work from home, but if you’re a fan of getting out in nature – and visiting some of the most picturesque parts of the world – this might be for you. The Department of Conservation in New Zealand is looking for a ‘biodiversity supervisor’ in Haast, … Read more
This guy’s one cool cat. Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a quick-thinking hunter in Idaho fired his pistol at a prowling cougar just as it pounced. A video of the frightening wildlife encounter, filmed via the victim’s cellphone, is currently blowing up on Instagram. “Good thing I was packing,” Jared Erickson wrote above the video … Read more
A549ACE cells ACE2-expressing A549 cells were generated as previously described3. A549ACE2 cells were grown in RPMI-1640 with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin-streptomycin and were maintained free of mycoplasma. Cells were infected at an MOI of 1 and fixed or lysed at 24 or 48 h after infection. HEK293T cells HEK293T cells were obtained from the American Type … Read more
Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, University of Bordeaux, Inserm, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France Aniket Mishra, Quentin Le Grand, Ilana Caro, Constance Bordes, David-Alexandre Trégouët, Marine Germain, Christophe Tzourio, Jean-François Dartigues, Sara Kaffashian, Quentin Le Grand, Florence Saillour-Glenisson & Stephanie Debette Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany Rainer Malik, Marios K. Georgakis, Steffen Tiedt & Martin Dichgans Iwate Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Iwate Medical University, … Read more
Mouse handling Experiments were conducted in accordance with the regulations of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of California, San Diego, and of the University of California, San Francisco. All mice used in this study were wild-type C57BL/6J males or females from the Jackson Laboratory (JAX 000664) and were of postnatal … Read more