Certain parasitic fungi, including species of cordyceps, infect insects and alter their behavior before killing them. After ...

Question: Did you inhale any fungal spores today? Answer: Yes. Absolutely. Tons of them. They're everywhere. "Anyone that's been outside has inhaled fungal spores," said Vincent Bruno, a scientist at ...

It’s Halloween, that time of year when we seek out scary things like vampires, werewolves, ghosts, mummies, and all kinds of similar fictional monsters. But Mother Nature has her own horrors—like the ...

Toby Kiers was recently awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, sometimes described as the "green Nobel Prize", for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi.