Tiny organisms on the ground—bacteria and fungi—have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull ...

A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams from Rhizocore Technologies are collecting samples of fungi from around ...

You've probably noticed mushrooms popping up everywhere lately, from lion's mane lattes to reishi tinctures. But here's ...

When people think of fungi, most tend to picture mushrooms, the spore-bearing bodies of some fungi that are typically found growing in soil or on trees. However, the whole fungal kingdom is so much ...

The genus Pestalotiopsis encompasses a diverse group of fungi that are increasingly recognised as significant plant pathogens, as well as endophytes with potential pharmaceutical applications. These ...

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed samples of it in a biobank facility for safekeeping at the San Diego Zoo, in ...

An international research team led by Konrad Meister from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, part of Mischa Bonn's department, has identified a new class of ice crystal-forming proteins in ...

The use of herbal medicines is one of the oldest health practices, typically involving plants, fungi, their metabolites, and ...