The manufacturer of Orajel teething swabs and Zicam cold relief products has voluntarily issued a nationwide recall due to possible fungal contamination, according to a notice posted by the Food ...

06/06/2025 Fungi form a hidden network that runs through the Earth like a system of life-giving veins. Scientists are only just beginning to understand the vital role fungi play, poised between ...

Groundbreaking research suggests fungi may communicate using electrical signals, resembling a language with up to 50 'words.' Professor Adamatzky's study analyzed mycelium networks, revealing ...

Like several other fungi, Aspergillus grow like small filaments in soils. They go on to release a large amount of tiny spores that further spread via air. These get inhaled by humans on a daily basis.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: A new study analyzing different climate scenarios discovered that toxic fungi will likely spread into new areas in the future, possibly threatening ...

Growing alongside fungi was this organism from a different life category: the slime mold Badhamia utricularis. It is orange or yellow in its early stage, with the slate gray appearing as it matures.

As it turns out, ants aren’t the only ones vulnerable to zombification — there’s another family of zombie fungi that targets spiders. Biologists have known about these fungi for decades, but a new ...

In laboratory experiments, it was effective against multi-drug resistant fungi and less toxic than another potent polyene. Though it is still too soon to say how much impact these drugs will have ...

Many of the world’s fungi - the “unsung heroes” of life on Earth - are under threat of extinction, an assessment of risk covering more than 1,300 species has revealed. The finding comes in the latest ...

Fungi vital to life face growing risk of extinction, study shows By Emma Farge March 27, 20259:02 AM PDTUpdated March 27, 2025 ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

The researchers are also looking at other marine fungi to see if they, too, can eat different types of plastics that are harder to degrade and are larger sources of marine pollution.