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Georgy Kurakin

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Georgy Kurakin is a biologist, Member of the Royal Society of Biology (MRSB). His primary areas of expertise are computational biology and data science in biology. He has peer-reviewed publications in biochemistry and evolution of bacteria and has his own blog on Nature Portfolio Microbiology Community platform. Georgy is also a science journalist contributing to various Russian science media outlets and regular speaker at “popular science” events in Moscow.
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Climate Change

We shouldn’t fear a “zombie fungus”, like The Last of Us… but a threat from fungi is real

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While a zombie-style fungal threat is incredibly unlikely, rising global temperatures mean we're increasingly at risk from a life-threatening fungal pathogen
Science

The evidence from plant neurobiology for the sentience of plants is far from well-grounded

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Plant neurobiologists have come to promote the idea that plants have a form of rudimentary sentience, but the evidence is slim, and the explanation is unnecessary
Science

Did we really discover pain in insects? Maybe… but we can’t be sure they feel it like we do

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Studies have shown insects can detect negative stimuli that we would register as pain, but we can't assume that's the same as feeling pain
History

Can we really identify the ancient disasters described in ancient myths?

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Many scholars have tried to identify the real events that inspired ancient myths - but with populations migrating, and stories changing, any connection to real history may be long lost
Science

Headlines about “talking” fungi raise the question: Do we really discover languages?

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Two recent studies claim to find evidence of communication within chimpanzees and fungi, but do they have the complexity of what we'd call language?
Cryptozoology

Monsters of our minds: Why cryptids live only in our imagination

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Cryptids may seem like unfalsifiable hypotheses, as we can't prove they don't exist, but we can still track their cultural evolution over time
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