From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Adriana Morrell thinks fungi have a lot of secret abilities, and in her lab at Lethbridge Polytechnic, she's busy trying to find out what they are. "It's all about starting to think about this ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper ...

Fungi could be classed alongside animals and plants as a separate realm for environmental protection under plans drawn up by the UK and Chile. The proposal, submitted to a UN conference on ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have be ...

Why are some fungi helpful and others harmful? asks Paul Glaister from Reading. Rutherford and Fry try to outdo each other with fungal top trumps in their attempt to find the answer. As Hannah ...

But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the ...

The planetary emergency is a complex crisis that requires innovative solutions. We can find some of these solutions in nature. From helping us grow our food to tackling our plastic waste problem, ...

This award-winning essay from young British science writer Zara Hussan explores the hidden, underground networks of fungi that are silently helping plants and trees to lock away carbon and combat ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts of a thriving ecosystem. But fungi are a remarkably diverse group of ...

Reporting in Science, Márquez et al. describe a tripartite association between a virus, a fungus and a plant that confers thermal tolerance on both the fungus and the plant. Individually neither ...