In ecosystems around the world, fungi play crucial roles in supporting plant life. Their ability to form connections between ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

T he Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence the genomes of all animals, fungi and plants found in Great Britain ...

For decades, scientists and conservationists have been using aboveground plant biodiversity as a metric for conserving ...

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Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, ...

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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have successfully revived fungal specimens collected over 80 years ago, ...

Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks ...

The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

Life Underground fungi absorb up to a third of our fossil fuel emissions Researchers estimate that plants transfer more than 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide each year to mycorrhizal fungi, which ...