Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin star in “American Primeval” (Netflix, Jan. 9), a frontier drama about the collision of American settlers and native inhabitants in the American West of the 1850s.

for the better part of the 1990s. Also,the new series American Primeval, starring Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, explores one of the lesser known eras of American history, the Utah War of 1857-58.

After breathing in spores of a fungus called Histoplasma capsulatum, which was hidden within the bat poop, the men developed a pneumonia condition called histoplasmosis. One man, aged 59 ...

A species of black fungus at the site of the Chernoyl disaster has mutated to 'feed' on nuclear radiation that would be lethal to most life forms. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, one of the most ...

Nail fungus is a frustratingly common ailment — about 10% of people are expected to get it at some point in their lives — and it can be tough to address because medications have to penetrate ...

Formo, a Berlin-based biotechnology company, thinks it has found the answer in a minuscule fungus, Koji, that has given that distinctive umami flavor to soy sauce, miso and other staples of ...

Two men from Rochester, New York, who grew their own cannabis died from pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus in bat poop they'd used as fertilizer. Two men in New York state have died ...

The closest wild relative to the world's most popular "magic mushroom" Psilocybe cubensis has been given a preliminary name: Psilocybe ochraceocentrata. The two species shared a common ancestor 1. ...