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The "gut microbiome" has become a popular health term in recent years. It's easy to see why, with an abundance of research ...

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The Wilmington area has seen a lot of rain recently. That means mushrooms could start popping up. But that's no reason to ...

University of Minnesota researchers studied the microbial degradation of the USS Cairo, one of the first ironclad and ...

This finding exposed a hidden carbon transfer. The fungi fed on deadwood, absorbed its carbon, and passed it to orchids. In ...

Think birdwatching, but looking down rather than up. At the ‘Glastonbury festival of mushrooms’ one writer dives into the ...

Experiments showed that this fungal coating forms a physical barrier that helps to prevent parasitic wasps from laying their ...

Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they ...

The Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors national parks are home to some of the UK's rarest mushrooms, a conservation charity ...