Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic ...

In July 2023, heavy rains continued in southern Sri Lanka for days, soaking the lush greenery of the village of Hapugala in ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

Diego Bianchi spent the pandemic hunting for fungi that will sustainably support commercial crops. Now he is celebrating their aesthetic value with his online gallery. A “bioprospecting ...

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 ...

Where is the optimal payoff? This analysis shapes how the networks expand, as scientists learned when they mapped the growth in real-time. “Fungi are super clever,” said Toby Kiers ...