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Fungi with melatin like radiation
    #6961922 - 05/24/07 02:42 PM (16 years, 10 months ago)

"Like plants that grow toward the sun, dark fungi, blackened by the skin pigment melanin, gravitate toward radiation in contaminated soil. Scientists have observed the organisms—somewhere between plants and animals—blackening the land around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in the years since its 1986 meltdown."

"But Casadevall and his colleague Ekaterina Dadachova, a nuclear chemist at Einstein, speculate that the melanin in this case acts like a step-down electric transformer, weakening the energy until it is useable by the fungi. "The energy becomes … low [at] a certain point where it can already be used by a fungus as chemical energy," Dadachova argues. "Protection doesn't play a role here. It is real energy conversion."


Scientific American article here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=B5CBEBBF-E7F2-99DF-3D569D1B10AAF0A3&pageNumber=1&catID=1

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