This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at ...

(NEXSTAR) – Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to ...

As global populations continue to grow, so does the need for nutritious food and efficient manufacturing processes. Current food production practices generate side streams that could be recycled.

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

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Below, you’ll find The Escapist’s full, spoiler-free review of Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores, including everything from the story and the world-building to the platforming style and charming aesthetic ...

They may be better known for stir-fries than supercomputing, but shiitake mushrooms have now been harnessed to function as living processors, storing and recalling data like a semiconductor chip but ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...

Mosquitoes placed in a container. [Mark Sherwood and Raymond St. Leger] In the battle against mosquito-borne diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, scientists turned to an ...

Wetlands act as nature’s kidneys: They trap sediments, absorb excess nutrients and turn pollutants into less harmful substances. Now, the list of pollutants wetland plants can remove includes per- and ...

Gardening is supposed to be a relaxing hobby, but like you, I sometimes find working with plants rather frustrating. Your description sounds like you have an ongoing healthy infestation of fungus ...