Tag: Symbiosis

  • Nation & World

    Plant power

    The world we live in was made possible by the precursors to plants, which crossed two evolutionary hurdles that transformed not only plant life, but also the Earth’s atmosphere and its once-barren continents, Arnold Arboretum Director William Friedman said in a recent lecture.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    I’ll get mine, Jack

    A new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained mostly because of simple self-interest.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Understanding the deadly deathcap

    Biology Professor Anne Pringle is taking the study of one of the world’s most poisonous mushrooms out of the realm of adventure stories and into the world of ecology, in an attempt to better understand how it spreads.

    4 minutes