How a Broader Understanding of the, Fungi Kingdom, Is Inspiring Innovation. 'The Guardian' recently highlighted the amazing ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

The hit HBO series "The Last Of Us" describes a post-pandemic world devastated by a mass outbreak of a "zombie fungus" that infects and takes over the mind of its hosts. Originally a video game, the ...

Unlike the fictional killer zombie fungi in the recent post-apocalyptic HBO series, The Last of Us, zombie fungi have never been found to infect mammals. But it’s no surprise that they animate our ...

‘Planet Fungi: A Photographer’s Foray’ celebrates the beauty and braun of fungi. By Popular Science Team Published Oct 18, 2025 12:00 PM EDT Image: Photo by Stephen Axford. Get the Popular Science ...

One of the oldest evolutionary relationships on planet Earth is also the least understood: the connection between plants and fungi. Specifically, we’re talking about mycorrhizal fungi, which have ...

On a special episode (first released on March 7, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Fungi are among us more than we realize. From the backs of frogs to our own backyard, fungi, a largely neglected group of ...

In what is a hugely promising sign for securing and boosting food production, a large-scale field study has demonstrated how treating farmland soil with mycorrhizal fungi can improve crop yields of ...

Candida auris, a fungus that causes sometimes deadly infections, can stick to almost any surface. In hospitals, “it’s very tenacious, very difficult to get rid of and ends up on all the surfaces ...