Bioluminescence results when a chemical reaction within a living thing produces light, creating a glow effect. Bioluminescent organisms are found in the ocean and on land. For ins ...

Tiny sugars from marine microbes help clouds freeze over the Southern Ocean, offering new insight into cloud brightness and climate models.

Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, ...

Algal blooms have many causes, but it's commonly chemicals in industrial fertilizers that end up in rivers and oceans in a ...

More recently, though, I’ve noticed that microalgae are popping up more and more, to the point that I started to wonder: What ...

This unique microbiome, a living laboratory of fungi, algae, and bacteria, represents a potential goldmine for novel drug development and antimicrobial research. As antibiotic resistance threatens ...

What do Fungi, Chameleons, and Humans All Have in Common? We’re all Heterotrophs From chameleons to ghostly plants, Earth’s life forms have evolved ingenious ways to eat.

“The algae and sometimes cyanobacteria — the two different types of organisms the fungus forms symbiosis with — give it color and create food through photosynthesis. So, the algae or cyanobacteria ...

A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

Well, there's algae underneath. So what do the algae do when they have water and light? They photosynthesize." The fungus protects the algae, and provides the lichen's structure.

The most outstanding part you see when you look at a lichen is the fungus that makes up the main structure. Smaller and harder to see, there’s usually green algae of some type, which can sometimes be ...

Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.