A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

The “Act Two” update for first-person “clean ’em up adventure” and immersive simulation game Ambrosia Sky will launch on August 6, developer Soft Rains announced. “Act Two” follows the successful ...

You're out walking through your garden after a heavy rainstorm. Suddenly, you spot it: a bright, gelatinous, neon-orange blob clinging to the bark of your beloved maple tree. It looks like an alien ...

Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

A shell that protected the Perseverance rover during its descent to Mars in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA / JPL-Caltech As scientists search for life beyond Earth, spacecraft ...

The greatest pitfall in the search for extraterrestrial life—according to science fiction, anyway—is foolhardy researchers somehow bringing aliens to Earth to wreak havoc. But after decades of ...

A new experimental study has identified a novel genetic locus in a common agricultural weed, Elymus repens, that provides significant resistance to the destructive fungal disease Fusarium Head Blight ...

In Western Australia’s goldfields, researchers have discovered a strain of the fungus known as Fusarium oxysporum that has an actual ‘Midas touch.’ This organism has a pink colour and is capable of ...

To most of us, mushrooms are just weird-looking woodland growths, and a fungus is something you probably need a cream for. Increasingly, though, scientists are describing fungi as more sophisticated ...

Assimilating aliens and fungal zombies The influence of science fiction can extend to scientific practice itself. Researchers named DNA elements which incorporate foreign genetic material "Borgs," for ...

President Donald Trump's doctor addressed what appeared to be red markings on Trump's neck Monday, saying he was undergoing a "preventative skin treatment" using a "very common cream." Subscribe to ...

While there are several very useful and flavorful fungi in our wonderful world, the gnarly green tendrilly stuff unleashed on humanity in the new somewhat-comic thriller “Cold Storage” is definitively ...