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Uncover the latest scientific discoveries coming from inside Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with our podcast, SciVIBE. Produced and hosted by Nick Hennen, you’ll also hear what life is like outside the lab for scientists and researchers who are tackling some of today’s most pressing issues. Tune in for unique and compelling conversations with experts leading the charge towards innovation and discovery. SciVIBE takes you behind the scenes where we are inventing the future. Our scientists are creating new kinds of batteries, making sure the lights stay on in your home, outsmarting cybercriminals, repelling biothreats, and so much more. Listen to stories that melt down otherwise hard to understand scientific concepts and topics and learn the origin of how things came to be from the PNNL scientists behind the work. We’re dedicated to sharing the excitement of discovery. Please share and subscribe.
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Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Fungus That Tastes Just Right
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
Thursday Jul 29, 2021
The natural world is rich with examples of give and take relationships. Bees pollinate flowers and receive pollen. Clown fish clean anemones, receiving protection in kind. But these relationships, or “systems,” are often more complex than they appear, some offering lessons that could help shape our future. What’s at stake in the relationship between leafcutter ants and the fungal gardens they nurture deep in their subterranean burrows? In this episode of SciVIBE, scientist Kristin Burnum-Johnson explains what’s up with these underground, invertebrate farmers, and what we stand to learn from studying their system.