A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

A deadly fungus behind the so-called curse of Tutankhamun ’s tomb can be harnessed to fight cancer, scientists have ...

New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it - New ...

A UK biotech firm spent years gathering genetic data that has uncovered 1 million previously unknown microbial species and billions of newly identified genes – but even this trove of data may not be e ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...

The British Association of Perinatal Medicine published its framework for identification and management of hypoglycaemia in term newborns in April 2017.2 The working group was made up of ...

Brian D’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, is a Scottish musician, DJ and sound recordist who has played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs around the world. His compositions fuse field recordings from ...

So, you might think that since mushrooms are poisonous to eat, they don’t have medicinal potential. However, jack-o’lantern mushrooms are one of the top producers of the chemical, lovastatin, which ...

This may help us identify the mushroom if you or someone else develops symptoms. Darren Roberts is a Conjoint Associate Professor in clinical pharmacology and toxicology, St Vincent’s Healthcare ...

A toxic mushroom at the centre of an Australian woman’s ongoing murder trial is also found in Canada. Currently on trial, Erin Patterson, 50, is accused of killing three relatives and attempting to ...

The general consensus among sport and exercise genetics researchers is that genetic tests have no role to play in talent identification or the individualised prescription of training to maximise ...