If you’ve ever stumbled across a perfect circle of mushrooms growing in the grass and felt a weird urge to […] ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That's the idea behind a new startup that sells disposable diapers paired with fungi intended to break down the plastic.

Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That's the idea behind a new product launched by an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells disposable diapers paired with fungi ...

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

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two ...

We've seen fungi being used to create useful new materials for construction, fire-retardant building insulation, and even 3D-printed batteries.

As conservation targets, fungi aren’t as appealing as giant pandas. But these scientists explain that the health of Earth’s fungal species is critically important.

To test mandimycin’s potency, the researchers grew a suite of drug-resistant fungi in tiny wells of broth and then exposed them to the compound. Notable fungi that mandimycin successfully ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

Understanding how plants regulate their symbiosis with fungi under stress conditions could provide information on how to breed crops that form beneficial partnerships with fungi even under ...

The field of marine mycology (the science of studying fungi in the sea) is often overlooked, but there’s so much to discover. The fungi that live in the sea fall into two main categories.