Scientists found that plants, fungi, and microbes use venom-like methods to protect themselves, attack rivals, or survive.

If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive.

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...

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 ...

Mycelium also sequesters a great deal of carbon, which keeps climate-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (some fungi can store 70 percent more carbon in the soil!). Furthermore ...

Some of these genes are involved in sensory and motor functions, suggesting that this type of compound is likely part of the fungi’s ant-manipulating chemical arsenal. In other cases, de Bekker and ...

Only a fraction of some 2.5 million fungi species thought to exist have been formally identified, meaning that assessing the threats they face has been slow compared to flora and fauna.

We can find some of these solutions in nature. From helping us grow our food to tackling our plastic waste problem, fungi offer opportunities for a more sustainable future. Fungi are a kingdom of ...

Dahlberg said most were very specific varieties and not dominant in any one particular fungal community, though some had been fairly common and widespread. Close to 300 of the threatened fungi ...

Just metres from some of Britain’s busiest roads, micro-forests of fungi sprout from the undergrowth. Mycologist Dr Mark Spencer pinpoints some striking examples he spotted in central London and ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...