A rogue mushroom is ripping through North American forests, after escaping from cultivation. As it runs riot, mushroom ...

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

Aspergillus fungus can cause economic damage to crops and dangerous infections in people.

A new study from Kiel University shows how the massive exchange of mobile genetic elements between fungi can impair their ...

Credit: Boris Vinatzer Fungi may hold a little-known key to ice formation in clouds. Can fungi affect the weather? It may ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia have described two new species of fungi, Peziza austroechinospora and ...

Fungi have been recorded having conversations, with a scientist finding they can communicate with a language similar to that of humans. Over the last decade, researchers have found evidence that ...

Orange oak bolete fungus (Leccinum quercinum) showing spore dispersal pattern over 24 hours on black card. Orange oak bolete fungus (Leccinum quercinum) showing spore dispersal pattern over 24 hours ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes connected to the outside world — our skin, hair, and gut — but research in the last few years has shown that ...