It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that ...

In a nutshell Researchers discovered that the internal thread orientation of mushrooms, specifically hyphal filaments, can ...

An ant, no longer in control of its body, crawls away from its colony, hangs perilously on a leaf, and waits to die as a fungus consumes its body, emerges from its head, and releases spores into ...

A critically endangered fungus reintroduced to England, where it had been extinct, is still not growing but scientists say it is too early to suggest a project to save it has failed. Parts of the ...

Federal authorities have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling Fusarium graminearum — a fungus that threatens crops and food safety — into the United States, raising concerns about ...

A Chinese scientist and his girlfriend are facing federal charges for allegedly smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus, into the U.S. The pathogen, deemed a potential agroterrorism weapon, ...

The fungus labeled a "potential agroterrorism weapon" in a recent arrest touted by the Trump administration likely originated in North America and is already widely prevalent around the country ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Two Chinese researchers have been charged with smuggling a fungus known to be a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the U.S. with the alleged intent of studying it ...

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Customs and Border Protection arrested two Chinese nationals for brining a controlled biological pathogen into the U.S.