Oyster

Xbox studio accidentally gave away the RPG that led to OG Fallout for free, so now it’s giving everyone a way to play it...

April 30, 2026

An Xbox developer made a big whoopsie and accidentally gave players a free (but broken) version of the game that led to OG Fallout, but rather than snatching the lucky (but, again, botched) freebie away from gamers, the studio is simply giving people a way to play it properly. "A couple weeks ago an error

Famous birthdays for April 5: Sterling K. Brown, Mike McCready

April 30, 2026

Music 1 of 3 | Sterling K. Brown arrives on the red carpet at the 96th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March...

Yashraj, Abdon Mech, Divyam Sodhi and All The Songs to Know This Week

April 30, 2026

Music From pop-rock band Last Minute India’s inward-looking new single to singer-songwriters Dhruv Visvanath and Radhika Mohite teaming up for two perspectives, we round...

Mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms release nerve gas to kill worms before eviscerating them

January 20, 2023

Oyster mushrooms growing on a farm. Deposit PhotosWe eat this fungus. But first, it eats nematodes. The post Oyster mushrooms release nerve gas to kill...

Carnivorous

Carnivorous oyster mushrooms can kill roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop”

January 19, 2023

A fungus among us — Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ID'd the culprit as the volatile ketone 3-octanone. Jennifer Ouellette - Jan 18, 2023 10:25 pm UTC Enlarge / Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) serenely growing on a tree trunk in a forest. But nematodes beware! These oyster mushrooms want to eat you—and they have evolved a novel