Prions Are Forever
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Shameless Bacterial Predator Remodels Its Own Prey
Bacterial big game hunters drill into victims, brace the hole, and then seal the wound behind them
Wonderful Things: A Transparent Plant
Filmy ferns live up to their name
Music for the Space Age Houseplant
1970 called—it wants its plant playlist back
New Zealand's Most Patriotic Mushroom
Tylopilus formosus is all black.
Smarty Plants--My Latest Guest Spot for Radiolab
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Fake Mushroom Lures Pollinators into Floral Trap
Unassuming houseplant uses alter ego to get lucky at insects' expense
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Discovery “represents a new extreme in organelle complexity”
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Plants, Like People, Succumb to Anesthesia [Video]
Putting plants under may help solve the enduring mystery of how anesthesia works
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