Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses ...

The bacteria and fungi living on your skin play a surprising role in keeping us healthy. Is it possible to give them a boost?

If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.

Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today published its first-ever reports addressing the critical lack of medicines and diagnostic tools for invasive fungal diseases, showing the urgent need for ...

Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

Recent studies reveal that fungi, crucial to ecosystems and human industries, are facing extinction threats. Issues like ...

Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary ...

Moore, a space nutritionist, partnered with NASA and SpaceX to send the first mushrooms into orbit.

A team of scientists have developed ‘fungi tiles’ that could one day help to bring the heat down in buildings without consuming energy. These wall ...