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Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’

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Credit: Richard Drury/Getty “Lots of our members call us ‘the magic money tree’,” says Alison Baxter, head of communications for the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), based in the United Kingdom. “They don’t really understand where the payments come from,” she says, “but they like getting them.” The ALCS is one of a global … Read more

The ‘Mother Tree’ idea is everywhere — but how much of it is real?

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It was a call from a reporter that first made ecologist Jason Hoeksema think things had gone too far. The journalist was asking questions about the wood wide web — the idea that trees communicate with each other through an underground fungal network — that seemed to go well beyond what Hoeksema considered to be … Read more