Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex ...

This mushroom communication has been studied in the past, finding that environmental changes to mushrooms in one area can ...

An asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. But it also enabled the first form of agriculture... long before the ...

But it gets (arguably) even weirder—especially when you leave behind the animal kingdom altogether. According to a new study, published in the journal Fungal Ecology, fungi may have their own unique ...

Mycologists believe the solution to some of our biggest pollution issues is under our feet. Humble fungi are now being used ...

Extractive processes for obtaining dyes from the fruiting bodies of existing fungal species and the controllable growth of ...

A series of experiments has revealed that a fungus called Phanerochaete velutina is able to distinguish between different ...

At its core, blockchain is a decentralized and distributed ledger technology that records transactions across a network of ...

We’re driving toward a lake on the south side of Mount Hood, cruising slowly and peering into the forest, when suddenly she hits the brakes, jumps out of the car, and runs up the hillside. I see her ...

The root/microbe interaction is especially interesting, and important. Those “threads” we see are the fungal hyphae that form ...