The fungi-powered MycoToilet turns human waste into compost, offering a waterless off-grid solution for 3.5 billion people ...

There is truly so much beauty and wonder in nature if we take a few minutes in our busy schedules to appreciate it. I was looking at a tree last month when there was much more moisture, and something ...

They call it shroom juice, a dark slurry of fungi that will not get you high. Workers dump packages of magic powder into buckets, add water, and stir. Then they grab saplings, dunk the roots into the ...

By Owen Reeder A recent study suggests that mushrooms could be used to make electronic components. Owen Noble/ Visual Editor Have you ever found yourself swamped in emails or thousands of ...

New research marks a major step forward in understanding C. auris biology, homing in on the genetics behind its ability to shape-shift from a round yeast form to a more hair-like, filamentous form -- ...

Research led by the University of Alberta challenges the idea that carbon exchange between plants and mycorrhizal fungi operates like a market. Instead, the study supports the "Surplus C" hypothesis, ...

Jiayan Li, Daiwen Chen, Bing Yu, Jun He, Ping Zheng, Xiangbing Mao, Jie Yu, Junqiu Luo, Gang Tian, Zhiqing Huang, Yuheng Luo https://www.jstor.org/stable/48723310 ...

Seen in the image below, scientists have discovered an unusual specimen of fungus that made a carpenter ant its home; this discovery is the oldest known ant fungal parasite, which is also a new genus ...

Microcalorimetry, i.e., the measurement of heat production rate was used to assess the metabolic activity of six wood-decay fungi growing on moist wood particles as a function of the temperature. Four ...

In 2009, a microorganism known as Candida auris emerged seemingly from thin air. The fungus, which led to deadly outbreaks in hospitals and other care settings, soon alarmed scientists worldwide as it ...