Business Insider

The astonishing underground sounds from the largest organism on Earth, and how they could help soothe your stress away

Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees. Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The ...
Florida Today

Sally Scalera: Those mushrooms in your yard could be killing your trees and shrubs

Support local journalism: Find offers for new subscribers here: Special Offers — USATodayNetwork. Many residents who grow palms are familiar with the signs of Ganoderma butt rot, Ganoderma zonatum, ...
JSTOR Daily

Metamodelling a 3D architectural root-system model to provide a simple model based on key processes and species functional groups

Aims The architecture of root systems determines where and how much resources plants can extract from the soil, how they compete for soil resources, and how they interact with soil organisms. We aimed ...
Ars Technica

A bug lurking for 12 years gives attackers root on most major Linux distros

Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major distributions ...