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Subway station study reveals fungal communities

phys.org

41 points by PaulHoule 10 days ago

unwind a day ago

Fungi in the subway is a thing in Stockholm's subway too, discovered in one station in back 2016 [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kungstr%C3%A4dg%C3%A5rden_metr...

  • JadeNB 11 hours ago

    Surely fungi in the subway is absolutely universal—the only question is whether it's interesting fungi that we know are interesting.

randomgermanguy 21 hours ago

Made me instantly think of this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/slime-mou...

Something ironically self-referential about not only fungi growing (like) rail networks, but also IN rail networks.

gtsnexp 19 hours ago

Is there a slight 'Last of Us' motivation here?

  • cluckindan 19 hours ago

    Maybe

    https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/drug-resistant-fun...

    • gtsnexp 18 hours ago

      This looks serious! Particularly weird is the notion that multiple clades emerged nearly simultaneously on different continents. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11123812/?utm_sourc...

      I couldn't find much on CNS symptoms...