A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from the paucity of antifungal drug options to lack of vaccines and diagnostic difficulties in humans, to the potential for catastrophic crop and ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

These fungi boost plant growth and restore depleted ecosystems, but federal funding for a library housing them has been cut – and it may be forced to close ...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Airborne fungal spores constitute a significant component of the bioaerosol, influencing both environmental and human health. Recent advances have elucidated how meteorological parameters—such as ...

It sounds like something from a Pedro Pascal zombie drama, but the rise of deadly fungal spores has got some in the scientific community running scared. Neither plants nor animals, fungi are “the most ...

The last time Ron Pritchard heard his son Ian's voice was just before Thanksgiving of last year. Then his son was placed on a ventilator. Ian Pritchard, 29, of Boyne City, had come to the emergency ...

Fungal spores found in the dung of Pleistocene megafauna reveal that large animals in the Colombian Andes went extinct in two “waves” Shiny Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus), a species of coprophilous ...