Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

As early fungi made the evolutionary journey from water to land and branched off from animals, they shed tail-like flagella that propelled them through their aquatic environment and evolved a variety ...

Although the field traditionally has branched into the study of fungi species that cause disease, mycologists say their field now encompasses molecular biology, ecology, chemical-extraction techniques ...

When did the first complex multicellular life arise? Most people, being a bit self-centered, would point to the Ediacaran and Cambrian, when the first animal life appeared and then diversified. Yet ...

For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi. For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi. A coral fungus ...

Broadcast version by Danielle Smith for Mississippi News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Timothy Robb peers into a microscope to reveal the ...

The classic microscope is getting a modern twist—US researchers are developing an AI-powered microscope system that could make soil health testing faster, cheaper, and more accessible to farmers and ...