Scientists are closer to being able to grow crops on the moon after successfully cultivating chickpeas in simulated lunar ...

Fungi play a dual role as indispensable ecological engineers and as major agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants. Recent estimates highlight their substantial impact, with millions of ...

Mycology is the branch of biological sciences dedicated to the study of fungi, including true fungi (kingdom Fungi) and traditionally associated fungal-like organisms. It encompasses the taxonomy, ...

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cluster of brown-capped mushrooms growing out of bark mulch in a garden. - Christina Dutkowski/Shutterstock Having a few wild ...

We thank Dr. Steve Haase and Connor Larmore for providing constructive feedback that helped improve the manuscript. We also thank Anushka Peer for providing technical supports for generating the ...

Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress tolerance, such as during drought, and to defend against pathogens. A fungus's ...