Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the host and its resident. It may seem unusual, but complex cells are thought ...

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as ...

These golden strands look as if they could be the “amber waves of grain” extolled in the song “America the Beautiful.” But they’re actually spore-producing filaments, growing from a tangle of fibers ...

Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining gold, fungi are craftier than we give them credit for. Now researchers in Japan have studied how forest mushrooms communicate with each other, and ...

While water lilies are perhaps most famous for starring in French impressionist artist Claude Monet’s work, they may also have a molecular secret weapon that could help in our ongoing fight against ...

Urbana’s first annual Fungi Festival will take place Oct. 11 and 12 at Anita Purves Nature Reserve, featuring research and ...

A new study has shown that people who have asthma or sniffling caused by allergies also carry a different set of fungi in their nasal cavities compared to people who do not experience allergy-related ...

The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ...