A leaking caulk joint in a shower can cause wood rot. Leaks around a toilet commonly cause rot in wood subfloors and joists below. Roof leaks and dryer or bath-fan exhaust in attics can rot out roof ...

Do you have wood rot happening at your home? It’s a very common problem, and it’s getting worse each year, in my opinion, ...

Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches ...

A common, black yeast-like fungus may be the solution to uncontrollable plastic waste production, according to a German startup. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes Fungi might just be the most ...

Wildlife officials in Oregon and Washington have confirmed the presence of a dangerous fungus known for killing millions of bats across North America. The fungus Pseudogymnoascus, which causes a ...

An old storm drain in Minneapolis. A damp cottage in Ontario. Underneath a house in New Zealand. In everyday encounters around the globe, people are getting a fright by a Halloween-worthy sight: the ...

Similar to wood floors, wood cabinets require special maintenance to keep them clean and spotless, without actually damaging the wood. Wood cabinets are finished with a variety of durable, protective ...

The San Antonio Aquarium has received criticism after a venomous octopus gripped a six-year-old child's arm and refused to let go in July. The child's mother and sea life advocates are calling for the ...

A California-based company has issued a voluntary recall for more than 240 bags of dried black fungus slice due to potential salmonella contamination. Natureen International Inc. distributed the ...

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.” That’s a recently discovered bit of science related to the zombie-apocalypse video ...

(left to right) Qiuyue Nie, the paper’s first author and postdoctoral fellow in the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and ...