In 2016, Benjamin Wolfe, a microbiome scientist at Tufts University, was scheming. He’d convinced his former advisor, Rachel ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

This weekend, the Quarry Gardens of Schuyler will host an intriguing event: A night-time hike to discover fluorescent fungi— ...

Many organisms have evolved to survive in some of the Earth’s harshest conditions, tolerating freezing temperatures, crushing pressures and other extremes. In studying these organisms, scientists ...

A common soil fungus forms strong hydrogels that could inspire next-generation biomedical materials for tissue regeneration.

For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They’ve provided treatments for a wide range of ...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles of organic ...

Many fungus strains have been used and selected by the food industry for their capacities to ferment, produce flavors or produce heterologous molecules. According to a new study, 2 fungi used to ...