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

An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...

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

About 13 billion tons of CO2 disappear underground each year, pulled down by mycorrhizal fungi - a volume equal to roughly a third of annual fossil fuel emissions - and until recently, most ...

Fungi have long fascinated scientists and aficionados alike. These strange and often misunderstood life-forms are sought-after for food, medicine, building materials, psychedelic journeys and much ...

"Mattresses are durable, bulky, and often end up in landfills," study co-author and chemical engineer The Hong Phong Nguyen ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

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 ...

The discovery of a new magic mushroom species in Africa is forcing mycologists to take another look at the famous psychedelic fungi’s evolutionary history. According to a study ...

Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including ...

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 ...