Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

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Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants ...

Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

Abe Stone can expertly identify mushrooms. The longtime forager’s affinity for fungi has guided him down a research path that holds promise for suppressing one of the most recent and obstinate ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Not all fungi, plants or animals may be considered the earliest giants on earth. The tower of column of trunk-like structures, also known as prototaxites, are found as fossils, dating back to rocks ...