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NEW VIEW. "More and more, symbiosis appears to be the ‘rule,’ not the exception." https://lnkd.in/ejR8YC4 View in LinkedIn

A LOVELY VIDEO of the relationship between plant roots and soil fungi. https://lnkd.in/eAq5Die View in LinkedIn

NINE PERCENT. "Our knowledge of fungi is far exceeded by our ignorance. To date, we’ve identified approximately 14,000 of the 150,000 species of mushroom-forming fungi estimated to exist, which means that more than 90 percent have not yet been identified." And that is the blind man simply counting noses. https://lnkd.in/eZ8w9KH View in LinkedIn

DIVERSITY. "There can be 10,000 to 50,000 species in less than a teaspoon of soil. In that same teaspoon of soil there are more microbes than there are people on earth. In a handful of healthy soil, there is more biodiversity in just the bacterial community than you will find in all the animals of the Amazon basin." https://lnkd.in/eyzuPzu View in LinkedIn

LIFE BELOW. "Ninety percent of all organisms on the seven continents live underground. In addition to bacteria and fungi, the soil is also filled with protozoa, nematodes, mites, and microarthropods." https://lnkd.in/eyzuPzu View in LinkedIn

"SYMBIOSIS as a source of selectable epigenetic variation. Evolutionary developmental biology is based on the principle that evolution arises from hereditable changes in development. Most of this new work has centered on changes in the regulatory components of the genome. However, recent studies...have shown that development also includes interactions between the organism and its environment." https://lnkd.in/ejR8YC4 View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT IN NATURE. We have seen how plant roots have elaborate layered defensive systems to keep out microbial pathogens. At the same time, these same roots have developed intimate elaborate relationships with synergistic soil microorganisms. Mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots are deeply interdependent, and have maintained these relationships for millions of years. This is the topic for a couple of weekends. View in LinkedIn

PROGRESS IN UNDER A DECADE. "The maximum size of an object which was successfully hidden in the experiment from electromagnetic fields using the wave flow method is currently six wavelengths. The perfect invisibility has not been achieved. However, it should be noted that researchers have significantly advanced in this field in comparison with the first realization of the cloaking device in 2006, at least in the microwave band." (2015) https://lnkd.in/enxaHbT View in LinkedIn

WATER CLOAK. "By using water as the effective material and separated into several regions by glass sheets, a simplest and cheapest invisible device is realized. This device can hide macroscopic objects with large scale and is polarization insensitive. Owing to simple fabrication and easily acquisitive materials, our work can be widely applied in our daily life." https://lnkd.in/eyP6_vj View in LinkedIn

2014 DEMONSTRATION. "Previous invisibility cloaks were based on metamaterials, which are difficult for practical realization in visible light spectrum. Here we demonstrate a unidirectional invisibility cloak in visible light spectrum." https://lnkd.in/eyP6_vj View in LinkedIn