Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU), in partnership with scientists from Germany and the United States, ...

Using fungi in biohybrid robots is still “pretty new,” Mishra says. His team now hopes to test how such tech responds to other cues, such as gases. One way their robots’ sen­sory superpowers might ...

The discovery of a powerful "weapon" used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and ...

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.

In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those ...

Forget snakes and spiders—a new review details venomous plants, fungi, and even bacteria, proving that nature's deadliest ...