After a long day at work, the last thing anyone wants to do is come back to a house full of chores, but this is unfortunately most of our realities. Whether that be the laundry, cooking, washing dirty plates, or vacuuming, maintaining a household can be a full-time job in … [Read more...] about Sharing is caring when it comes to splitting household chores
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The secrets behind the ferocity of fungi exposed
Armillaria ostoyae is one of the toughest tree-killing fungi on the planet. It assembles with black tentacle-like structures called rhizomorphs, which leach onto trees and suck out their nutrients. The reason the fungi is so hard to kill has previously baffled scientists, with … [Read more...] about The secrets behind the ferocity of fungi exposed
Stargazing on the mesa
Diane Daniel | July/August Issue 2012 When University of Utah biology professors learned that the owner of Entrada Ranch, 380 remote acres in red-rock country, was looking to sell the land to someone who would conserve it, they scrambled to find a way to establish a field … [Read more...] about Stargazing on the mesa