Just as the human body contains a multitude of symbiotic microbial companions, most plant species also live alongside ...

Female stinkbugs use leg pits to grow fungi that protect their eggs from wasps, revealing a new type of insect-fungus ...

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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 ...

Fungi are downright fun. They can be beautiful, spooky, downright gory, help fake plumbers grow, and play a crucial part in ...

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

A mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, a more ...

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 ...