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Hungry fungi chomp on radiation

Common pigment may allow bizarre feeding habits.

From plastic to asbestos, cardboard to jet fuel, fungi will eat just about anything. Now researchers have found another dish in the fungal diet: radiation. Not radioactive compounds, which have long been known to be on the menu — radiation itself.

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Posted by Mike Hopkin on May 23, 2007 01:00 AM |

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