An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

When the Dome Fire tore through the Mojave Desert in 2020, it reduced 1 million Eastern Joshua trees to blackened skeletons. Scientists expected the underground ecosystem to be equally devastated.

All joking aside, you may have noticed that the recent wet spring weather lead many fungi to break dormancy, release spores, and wind up in new places. While growers and gardeners often find ...

At Duke University, two researchers are studying what happens when heat changes fungi at the most fundamental level and ...

The "gut microbiome" has become a popular health term in recent years. It's easy to see why, with an abundance of research showing how important the trillions of microbes living in our gut are for ...

Scientists Discovered a Zombie Fungus That Turns Spiders Into the Walking Dead ...

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed an elegant strategy to counteract a lack of phosphate in the soil—they ...

Each lawn fungus comes from a separate pathogen, leaving behind a distinct sign of its presence. Learn what the signs are and how to fight the fungi.

In World War 2, the “wonder drug” penicillin saved the lives of an estimated 15% — quite literally, millions — of Allied ...

The putrid corpse flower blooms with the stench of rotting flesh, as does the lesser-known (but equally pungent) Bulb ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.