A team of scientists has discovered that an ancient medicinal clay known as Lemnian earth (LE) could inspire new ...

"These drug-producing organisms do not make all the drugs they can make," said study leader Clay Wang, ... Scientists frequently study A. nidulans as a model for understanding other fungi.

Mycorrhizal fungi, which encompass thousands of species, can form large, underground networks, connected by branching filaments called hyphae, threading through the soil in every direction. One type ...

For decades, mining companies unearthed uranium in the American Southwest. Today, the remnants of those mines pepper the landscape, especially in the Navajo Nation, in northeast Arizona. Mine tailings ...

Desert varnish is a thin veneer of clay, minerals and microbes that forms on the surface of rock. It accumulates slowly, at a rate of 1 to 40 micrometers or less than the width of a human hair in ...

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These fungi may have been added to the clay accidentally, and subsequently, ... A model for the preparation and efficacy of historical Lemnian Earth. PLOS One, 19(12), ...

The resultant clay then washes down to the sea and settles on the bottom, where the clay's chemical properties actively attract organic carbon and then absorb it, much like kitty litter.