Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Discovery pushes back origin of Ophiocordyceps fungi by 30 million years, suggesting fungi evolved by shifting to new hosts.

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A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

In its first-ever global effort to rank fungal pathogens by threat level, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a call-to-action in October 2022, urging public health agencies to pay more ...

"Fungi are super important, it's phenomenal what they've done for humans," Kronstad said. They are used in everything from pharmaceuticals to food production, and some even help recycle nutrients ...

Some of these species form partnerships called mycorrhizal symbioses with plant roots. How these fungi grow their networks to find new resources and plant partners, however, isn’t clear.

Though a network of fungi can function like the neurons of a brain in some senses, they do not literally think. Let’s just hope that keeps them from plotting world domination. Fungal Ecology, 2024.

Some research has suggested that this has already happened with the fungi that cause Valley fever, which has historically been confined to the Southwestern U.S. but is now showing up in other ...

Some fungi make fruiting bodies that we know as mushrooms as part of their reproductive cycles, but they also produce a branching network of threadlike structures called hyphae.

Why have some orchids stopped photosynthesis and become parasites feeding on fungi? Kobe University researchers found that in at least one species the transition may be driven by the opportunity more ...

As temperatures rise, some fungi may adapt to survive in warmer conditions, potentially making them more capable of infecting humans. One real-world example of fungi becoming more widespread due to ...