Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the U.S ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

A student at WVU identified a fungus in morning glories that makes LSD-related compounds. Named Periglandula clandestina, it ...

Do ants poop? Discover how these social insects have developed ingenious methods to manage their waste.