I googled part of the article because phys.org didn't link to it and I knew there was no way they wrote it.

It's a press release, so I doubt Emory University minds much, but still, HN prefers original sources ("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." [1]), and phys.org and the other science blog-mills are problematic.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Just look at the other articles on that blog. Google the title and you'll know that he is copying from various reputed science news websites and journals. For example "Fungi at root of plant drugs that can help, or harm, sick monarch butterflies" is an article published in this blog as well as http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/ehs-far100815... . Unless the author of the blog can prove that he is a central source of information for all these sites, there is no doubt that he is blatantly plagiarizing.