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Mushroom Launches ThirdEye Technology That Sends Video over Broadband

Mobile broadband isn't exactly known for its ability to transmit video in real time, but Mushroom Networks wants that to change with the ThirdEye. Not too long ago mobile broadband wasn't exactly the medium of choice for people who wanted to access the Internet. The wireless technology evolved, though, a...

6 February 2012
03:22 GMT

Dell Starts Using Mushroom Cushioning on Servers

It seems that Dell has once again drawn the attention of the web, although, in this case, the reason is much different from what users and IT market entities might be expecting.The industry doesn't really pay that much attention to what various IT players use to ensure that their products don't get damaged...

6 April 2011
04:31 GMT

About Poisonous Mushrooms

Without counting with the microscopic fungi, there are 3,800 species of mushrooms in Europe alone. 250 species are toxic but very few can kill: about 12 species. The same mushroom species can have various effects, depending on its age, consumed amount and the health state of the consumer.In France, three mushrooms ar...

2 April 2008
16:46 GMT

How Did the Human Speech Appear?

The complex human speech is one of our traits that definitely separates us not only from other animals, but also perhaps from our extinct relatives. It is believed that Homo sapiens appeared about 150,000 years ago, but a sudden boost in its evolution was given by the emergence of the language some 50,000 years ago. ...

3 August 2007
14:11 GMT

41 lb (20 kg) Huge Mushroom

400 million years old mushrooms were known to grow as big as trees. But this one has been recently picked up, in a forest, close to a coffee plantation, in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas, Southern Border University Center officials said on Tuesday. The white mushroom was 20-kilo (41-lb) heavy and 70 cm (...

20 July 2007
14:16 GMT

The Largest Living Organism

Which is the world's largest living organism? You will be tempted to say something you can see. Like the blue whale in the case of animals or the sequoia tree when it comes to plants. But you're wrong: it is something you do not even see, but it slowly grows by millennia. It's an enormous tree killer n...

11 June 2007
06:39 GMT

Which Mushrooms Did the Dinosaur Eat to Get High?

Amber is priced not only in jewelry but also by scientists, too: it can offer glimpses of past life that other fossils cannot, as it can preserve soft tissues. This is how Oregon researchers have found the world's oldest mushroom, embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber. This is about 20 million years ...

11 June 2007
05:26 GMT

How to Drug With Mushrooms

The "magic mushrooms" are gilled fungi that induce psychotic effects due to the alkaloid called psilocybin. Psilocybin occurs in high levels in some species of Psilocybe and Panaeolus, and in lower levels in Conocybe, Gymnopilus and Inocybe. Psilocybe, Panaeolus, Conocybe grow in varied habitats, from dung to humus. ...

1 June 2007
11:23 GMT

Mushrooms

Fungi can be found everywhere in some organic chemicals, from water to pastures and even in sand dunes. But for those forming mushrooms their favorite environment remains the soil of the forests, where the biggest diversity in species, sizes, shapes and colors is to be found. Some species are poisonous, others are co...

18 May 2007
15:14 GMT


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