An international research team, including the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), has described ...

The immune system operates at the interface between the host and a complex, dynamic environment that includes diverse microbial communities and ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ability to thrive in the wake of flames The fire-loving fungus Geopyxis, seen ...

ANGWIN, Calif. (AP) — Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow ...

Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, ...

Fungi are masters of disguise, morphing from round yeast cells to sword-like filaments, lying low until conditions allow them to invade tissues and trigger deadly infections. While scientists have ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

On the eastern flank of the tiny constitutional monarchy of Lesotho, about 225 kilometers from Durban, South Africa, sits the village of Ha Mokoto. Its residents are eking out a living in a manner not ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus. Toby Kiers, an evolutionary biologist at ...

(NEXSTAR) – Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to ...

A state-funded survey has sampled and collected fungi species from across California, identifying hundreds of new-to-science species. It’s part of a statewide effort to protect biodiversity, which has ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward ...