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

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary history. A rare fossil of Prototaxites, a 30-foot-tall fungus that lived ...

Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing.

A fungus that has been described as a "urgent threat" by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is spreading rapidly across the ...

Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plants. Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even ...