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Need to keep your picnic cool? Try mushrooms instead of dry ice
“Cool as a cucumber” might be better phrased as “cool as a mushroom.” A research team has found that mushrooms and other fungi, including yeast and molds, stay cooler than their surroundings—and has also explained how they stay so chill. The contain a lot of water—just think how mushrooms shrink when cooked—and gradually release it in a fungal form of sweating that...
WHO ends pandemic emergency as COVID-19 deaths fall
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an end to the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency’s director-general, Tedros
Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, said at a press conference on Friday in Geneva that WHO’s emergency committee had met the previous day and recommended ending the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the highest alert...