A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially-made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams ...

Fungi are essential to life on land. They decompose organic matter, cycle nutrients and sustain plant ecosystems. Without ...

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

Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

Fungi, thriving over a billion years ago in soil, air, and oceans, may have been Earth’s first ecosystem engineers, predating ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that there ...

Fungal ecology is the scientific study of fungi and the ecosystem they are part of. It includes the interactions of fungi with their environment and with the organisms they share it with. Fungal ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is the most common form of symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. The fungal hyphae penetrate plant cells and develop branching morphological ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Fungal foot infections like athlete's foot and onychomycosis (toenail fungus) are often treated with topical or oral antifungals, but they can be persistent and spread easily. Bacterial foot ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...