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