Nov. 19—ANDERSON — With each step hikers take along the trails of Indiana's state forests, they're coming closer than they realize to a vast microbial network that some scientists believe could play a ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause diseases in apples.

The popular video game series turned HBO series, “The Last of Us,” is about a terrifying fungus that infects humans, turning them into zombies. This concept is based on a well-known fungus that ...

Scientists zapped mold spores in a laboratory and concluded that two types of fungus could survive a journey to the moon or Mars. There are both positive and negative implications about this news, ...

It sounds like something from a Pedro Pascal zombie drama, but the rise of deadly fungal spores has got some in the scientific community running scared. Neither plants nor animals, fungi are “the most ...

I fear that we have a rather indelicate subject for our column this week and it’s not even a plant. It’s a fungus, of course, and something everybody knows about fungi: they happen. The fungi are an ...

Gregory Moore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

For decades, a grisly mystery has buzzed around one fly-killing fungi. No matter when the fungus infects a fly, it always dies at the same time of day. Death always comes at sunset. When molecular ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...