A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn't get infected with a mosquito's bite.

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

Rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns may be lengthening fungal allergy season, which starts 3 weeks earlier than it did two decades ago.

New research in Plants, People, Planet indicates that bread wheat's micronutrient content can be increased by cultivating it ...

A research team leverages chlorophyll fluorescence (ChlF) imaging, a cutting-edge technique, to identify reliable pre-symptomatic diagnostic indicators for rice blast and brown spot.

Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, numerical memory and navigational memory differ in kind, but the deeper point ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

Zombifying fungi have been infecting insects for 99 million years Ancient amber trapped Ophiocordyceps spores bursting from a fly and an ant pupa ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by ...

In this episode of Against All Odds, Gabriela D’Elia, Director of the Fungal Diversity Survey and fungi enthusiast, tells us the many ways fungi are our climate allies—and why it’s so ...

As conservation targets, fungi aren’t as appealing as giant pandas. But these scientists explain that the health of Earth’s fungal species is critically important.