Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated kingdom of the natural world ... Scientists think that these mushrooms were spiritual, but they may also have been ...

While they share some genetic similarities with humans, especially in their evolutionary history, mushrooms are neither plants nor animals. Fungi form their own kingdom, distinct from both plant ...

"Mushrooms are not plants," said Amy Honan ... last week that a joint proposal by Chile and the United Kingdom could see fungi recognised as "an independent kingdom of life in legislation ...

Fungi are organisms that are grouped in a distinct kingdom within the eukaryotes ... such as yeasts or moulds to large multicellular mushrooms. Migration patterns of the wheat stripe rust pathogen ...

A Czech-made house built from mushroom-based material could revolutionize eco-friendly construction by replacing polystyrene with mycelium.

Fungi are a kingdom of their own, neither plant nor animal. They’ve been around for millions of years. They sustain plants and are crucial for making soil and keeping life going. But we’re only just ...

Those behind the proposal think fungi get a bad press. Often "stigmatised" as smelly mould or "poisonous mushrooms", these organisms are "essential to life on Earth", said Forbes. The human race ...

Yet mushrooms are poorly understood, and the field of medicinal mushrooms is still in its infancy. Fungi used to be overlooked as a low-calorie, low-nutrition food, but in fact many are full of ...

Have mushrooms been chatting with each other this whole time? Maybe so. An analysis of the electrical spike-based “language” fungi use to communicate, reported today (April 6) in Royal Society Open ...