Imagine having a smoke alarm or a mold alarm informed by fungi in your home, or a study showing the health of a forest ...

This Saturday, April 26, is National Independent Bookstore Day. The highlight of indie bookstores from coast to coast each ...

Mary Cowser, a senior in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, has plans for a future in fungi and law ...

A team of researchers has created a rigid, living material inspired by biological structures such as bone and coral, using a ...

The shear diversity of fungi in the world is estimated at 6.2 million species. That is 16 times the number of plant species ...

The fungi can’t survive without carbon, and the plants produce plenty of carbon through photosynthesis. The plants need water ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

The most dangerous kingdom on Earth isn't led by humans—it's fungi. While we've focused on viral pandemics, over two million ...

Would you eat the forbidden fungi? Scientists have uncovered a mushroom-derived compound that seems to be the most bitter ...

Salk Institute plant biologists discover new plant molecule, CLE16, as well as a fungal CLE16 mimic, that encourage the beneficial symbiotic relationship between plants and fungi. CLE16 ...

They think they’re always exiting the soil.” Conditions are critical for the fungus. Bayer explained the speed in which air is blown determines the mycelium’s striations — the faster blown ...

Fungi adapt to heat, spread through spores, and may cause more fungal infections in a warmer, crowded, connected world.