An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

Using fungi in biohybrid robots is still “pretty new,” Mishra says. His team now hopes to test how such tech responds to other cues, such as gases. One way their robots’ sen­sory superpowers might ...

Regardless of whichever old wives' tale you've fallen back on to keep your blooms looking lively, the aim of all of them is ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

They set up a moss-covered exhibit at the U.K.'s Chelsea Flower Show to put rare orchids on public display. Scientific methods like transplanting fungi are promising, but the world's orchids also ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots. In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their ...

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 ...

An 1870 watercolor of Agaricus rubescens Fr., by Mary Elizabeth Banning, a self-taught mycologist who studied fungi in her home state of Maryland for four decades.Credit...New York State Museum ...

Like humans, many fungi rely on plants as a food source. This impacts the yield of food crops. It's estimated farmers lose between 10 to 23% of their crops to fungal disease every year. The global ...

Moreover, the more fluorescent pollen an explosion removed, the more successful that explosion was at depositing the flower’s own pollen onto the beak. High-speed video showed that pollen grains ...