Fungus Found in Battery Waste Devours One of the World’s Deadliest Poisons In the soil around a leaking industrial battery, scientists have found a microscopic ally with a taste for one of chemistry’s most feared poisons. A fungus named Aspergillus welwitschiae LOT1, isolated from land contaminated by battery effluent in Nigeria, can strip cyanide—the molecule […]
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