Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

How fungi ‘superpowers’ from mushroom pellets are restoring forests across the world - ‘Rhizopellets’ are being planted ...

Last week, it was time for another episode of the hit HBO series “The Last Of Us.” In this take on the apocalypse, we see a post-pandemic world that’s been taken over by zombies. But these are not the ...

The hit HBO series "The Last Of Us" describes a post-pandemic world devastated by a mass outbreak of a "zombie fungus" that infects and takes over the mind of its hosts. Originally a video game, the ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

On a special episode (first released on March 7, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Fungi are among us more than we realize. From the backs of frogs to our own backyard, fungi, a largely neglected group of ...

Scientists have collected DNA samples of thousands of new fungus species over the past several decades. These fragments of fungal DNA are found nearly everywhere—in soil, decomposing logs, water, and ...