Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses ...

Aspergillus flavus is a toxic crop fungus that has been linked to deaths in the excavation of ancient tombs. It was recently used in a test against leukemia cells and resulted in those cells being ...

A team of researchers from Yokohama National University, Japan, have discovered a previously unknown species of marine fungus that can kill harmful, bloom-forming algae. The new species, Algophthora ...

A Chinese researcher who smuggled a crop-killing fungus dubbed “vomitoxin” into the US has been deported, officials announced Monday. Yunqing Jian, 33, who once worked for the University of Michigan, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microscopic, parasitic fungus evolved to hijack ants’ ...

Chytrid fungus is a deadly pathogen plaguing amphibians in an ongoing global pandemic, with the potential to kill off entire populations. But in one threatened Australian frog species, the infection ...

Oregon’s Malheur National Forest is a beautiful place. And it’s also home to one of the most fascinating organisms on Earth, an enormous, sprawling species of Armillaria ostoyae which has been dubbed ...

Below, you’ll find The Escapist’s full, spoiler-free review of Lone Fungus: Melody of Spores, including everything from the story and the world-building to the platforming style and charming aesthetic ...

According to the researchers’ study published in Nature, the question of how to both trap and kill mosquitoes naturally began with a fungus called Metarhizium. Metarhizium is known to be deadly to ...

A black mosquito with white stripes and a belly full of red blood sticks its proboscis into human skin. The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) biting human skin. Researchers at Zhejiang ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...