Researches say newly discovered kinds of fungus could be a key tool in the fight to keep man-made plastics and toxic chemicals out of rivers and oceans. In a newly published study from Texas A&M ...

Fungi have been around for many millions of years, with the incremental process of evolution honing and improving their ...

(Mycology is the study of fungi; mycoses are invasive fungal infections.) Why do fungi love Alabama? Geography is one big reason. “We are in the hot, humid Deep South, and our soil and flora ...

While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...

Extremely preterm newborns who weigh less than 3.3 pounds have immature lungs that often require high levels of ventilation ...

While the idea of fungi creating zombie-like humans may sound far-fetched, real scientists have studied the connection behind fungal evolution and climate change and the threats fungi can pose to ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

More information: Martin Täubel et al, Fungi in Early-Life House Dust Samples and the Development of Asthma: A Birth Cohort Study, Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2023). DOI: 10.1513 ...