One of the main foods high in Vitamin B, mushrooms can help keep your immune system healthy with oyster and shitake taking ...

Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus spp.) Brightly colored and striking, chicken of the woods mushrooms are another example of fungi that thrive on decaying wood. While edible and popular among ...

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 ...

A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what Empa researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, ...

If the environment changes—for example, during a drought—they may be exposed and become a risk to the health of the habitats. "When sediments are exposed to air, these fungi may begin to ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Jaime Rockney, or “Chick of the Woods,” as she’s known to many, has never met a mushroom she didn’t like. Rockney, who is a Jordan resident, said after nine years of working a regular ...

After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed ... and agriculture. For example, genes responsible for this ...