Do Fungi Feast on Radiation?
Like plants that grow toward the sun, dark fungi, blackened by the skin pigment melanin, gravitate toward radiation in contaminated soil. Scientists have observed the organisms—somewhere between plants and animals—blackening the land around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in the years since its 1986 meltdown. “Organisms that make melanin [...]
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Melanin notes
Posted in Dopamine, Melanin, evolution on May 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
