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 ...

“The example from our paper is a species of Herpomyces [a genus of fungi] that we know from the Northeast, Panama and an area in eastern Africa.” Since these places are distant and apparently ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts ...

Just metres from some of Britain’s busiest roads, micro-forests of fungi sprout from the undergrowth. Mycologist Dr Mark Spencer pinpoints some striking examples he spotted in central London and ...

According to the first big assessment of the state of the world's fungi, the fungal kingdom is vital to life on Earth. Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are ...