Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

Fungi are nature's recyclers and chemists, turning waste into useful products and creating an array of enzymes and compounds.

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

A student at WVU identified a fungus in morning glories that makes LSD-related compounds. Named Periglandula clandestina, it ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...