Lens fungus feeds on moisture and darkness, silently damaging optics. Learn how to spot, prevent and stop it before it is too ...

A new U of A study shows how white spruce trees and fungi team up to survive and ward off attacks from the spruce budworm—an alliance that could point to ways to boost the resilience of forests ...

Growing alongside fungi was this organism from a different life category: the slime mold Badhamia utricularis. It is orange or yellow in its early stage, with the slate gray appearing as it matures.

And to someone who hasn't spent that much time looking at fungi they’re mind-blowing. I mean, you hear about the diversity of it, but to actually see such gorgeous things is just amazing.

Many of the world’s fungi - the “unsung heroes” of life on Earth - are under threat of extinction, an assessment of risk covering more than 1,300 species has revealed. The finding comes in the latest ...

Timelapse photography shows how even one oyster can clean 50 gallons of water per day. "Everything else relies on oysters — not only for water quality, but for habitat.

Oyster ‘Blood’ May Be the Secret Weapon in Our Fight Against Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs, Study Finds In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics ...

Golden oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) – fungi native to parts of Russia, China and Japan – are one of the richest natural sources of an antioxidant called ergothioneine.

We are of two minds about mushrooms. As part of the fungi kingdom, they may be the death of us (see HBO’s “The Last of Us”). Or, just maybe, a big handful of the 5 million or more species ...

Do fungi recognize shapes? Date: October 9, 2024 Source: Tohoku University Summary: Fungi don't have eyes or a brain, but their intelligent behaviors may surprise you. New research suggests that ...

Fungi naturally respond to changes in their natural environment, whether that be variations in soil chemistry or increased light exposure, by sending electrophysiological signals through the mycelium.