From Jenna Orkin Saudi Arabia puts Israel deal on ice amid war, engages with Iran, sources say Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Here to Pump You Up (Emotionally) More than four in 10 seniors meet none of the college readiness benchmarks; 70% of seniors fall short of college readiness benchmark for mathematics Harvard Student Groups Face Intense Backlash for Statement Calling Israel ‘Entirely Responsible’ for Hamas Attack The Tangled Grief of Israel's Anti-Occupation Activists The Man Who Would Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister The Luxury Office Building That Became a Horrific Migrant Shelter Underneath every mushroom is a sprawling, branching network of rootlike structures called a mycelium. Now researchers have successfully grown these networks into Pop Tart–size sheets that could act as a fire retardant in building materials. Mycelium contains a lot of carbon. When exposed to fire, the sheet briefly burns, releasing water and carbon dioxide into the air, before petering out and leaving behind a black layer of carbon. If you stop thinking of atoms and electrons as minuscule tennis balls and instead imagine any “quantum object” as something like a wave created in water, a lot of the weirdness of quantum phenomena is removed, write Jasper van Wezel, Lotte Mertens and Jans Henke. Van Wetzel and Mertens are at the University of Amsterdam, and Henke is a science writer in the Netherlands. Several so-called strange quantum phenomena can be achieved by water waves too, they say. Cory Mills in Israel to Rescue Americans