Article – Taste by Tentacle: The Microbial Superpower of the Octopus
🧬 Straightforward but cool and a little unsettling. Octopus arms are more than gripping tools—they’re highly developed chemical detectors. They use chemotactile receptors in their suction cups to “taste” microscopic signals from the microbial world, helping them make critical survival decisions, such as identifying spoiled food or defective eggs. Read the article here:
Article – Toxic fungus Linked to ‘pharaohs curse’ could help find cancer
Deep beneath the sands of Egypt, nestled in a crumbling tomb sealed for millennia, lurks a fungus so ancient and bizarre it makes Cordyceps look like moldy bread. Legend calls it the Pharaoh’s Curse Fungus—a dusty, spore-laden terror that activates the moment some poor fool pries open the tomb without permission. Here’s the kicker: when…
Mutant Hollow: Zombie Science & Cryptid Pathogens 