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We spoke with author Wendy Wagner about the Northwest Oregon-set "Girl in the Creek," and how she became editor-in-chief of Nightmare Magazine.
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...
Could baby poop and fungi work together to tackle landfill waste? That's the idea behind a new product launched by an Austin, Texas-based startup that sells disposable diapers paired with fungi ...
A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.
Deep-sea mining could have wide-ranging, long-lasting, irreversible effects on marine ecosystems, with global impacts. If demand for critical minerals grows, pressures for large-scale DSM are ...
" Fungi are the unsung heroes of life on Earth, forming the very foundation of healthy ecosystems - yet they have long been overlooked,” IUCN Director General Dr Grethel Aguilar said after the ...
Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...
Understanding how plants regulate their symbiosis with fungi under stress conditions could provide information on how to breed crops that form beneficial partnerships with fungi even under ...
Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.
Marine Fungi Could Eat Plastic Pollution, Helping to Clean Our Oceans and Beaches Learn more about the marine fungi that could be conditioned to help clean up Hawai’i’s beaches.
The field of marine mycology (the science of studying fungi in the sea) is often overlooked, but there's so much to discover. The fungi that live in the sea fall into two main categories.