Monosson is the author of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Amherst There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from ...

Mushrooms are popping up across the Valley. Here's one you should avoid. After a week of historic rainfall across the Valley, ...

Robert Hart is a former London-based Forbes senior reporter. HBO’s hotly anticipated TV adaptation of the acclaimed Last of Us game series premiered on Sunday, showcasing the world after a devastating ...

A fungus (plural: fungi) is a type of eukaryotic organism belonging to the kingdom Fungi, alongside plants, animals, protozoa, and monera. Fungi are incredibly diverse, with commonly encountered forms ...

MADISON - A report today (June 27) in PLOS Pathogens shows how inhaled fungal spores exit the lung and trigger a fatal infection in mice. The study solves a mystery of mycology: Why are spores of a ...

Gregory Moore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Scientists have discovered a fungal species that infects spiders and appears to control their behavior, compelling them to leave their usual hiding places before succumbing to the deadly infection.

I fear that we have a rather indelicate subject for our column this week and it’s not even a plant. It’s a fungus, of course, and something everybody knows about fungi: they happen. The fungi are an ...

Biologists created a symbiotic system that hints at how features such as mitochondria and chloroplasts might have emerged a billion years ago. Scientists wielding a minute hollow needle — and a bike ...

Only the flower on the far left is real. The rest are made of fungus. Kenneth Wurdack, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Scientists have discovered a type of fungus in Guyana ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...