A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered a previously unknown strategy by which certain ...

Cornell scientists have identified a genetic regulator that helps a species of yeast unlock energy from complex sugars, a finding that could support greener manufacturing and new ways to disrupt ...

Lichens colonize trees and rocks all over the world. They are symbiotic communities between fungi and photosynthetically ...

Researchers have discovered 16 new species of fungus living unnoticed inside garden flowers and wildflowers across northern ...

Rytas Vilgalys' fascination with fungi began when he was a young boy. Little did he know it would lead to a 40-year career at ...

Governments signing this pledge to recognise fungi as an independent kingdom of life in national and international ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungi may have been Earth's first ecosystem engineers, thriving more than a billion years ago. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Fungi live ...

A Hawaii high school student’s discovery of a coconut husk fungi that cleans up plastics and sunscreen in the ocean—and won ...

It’s hard to miss the headliners at Kew Gardens. The botanical collection in London is home to towering redwoods and giant Amazonian water lilies capable of holding up a small child. Each spring, its ...

The fungi remained aboard the ISS for close to a month before returning to Earth, eventually making their way back to ...

Wow, that’s one old fungus. A team of scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of fungi ever, dating back a billion years. The fungus was identified in the form of microscopic fossils embedded ...