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Subway station study reveals fungal communities

phys.org

46 points by PaulHoule 12 days ago

unwind 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

randomgermanguy 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

  • cluckindan 2 days ago

    Maybe

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

    • gtsnexp 2 days 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...