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By Abhishyant Kidangoor All around her, scientists had their eyes set on studying flora and fauna that lived aboveground. But ...

Through a microscope, Matt Nelsen peers at an ant clinging to a branch with a death grip. A long spike shoots from the insect’s back — the calling card of the “zombie” fungus that killed this tiny ...