Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

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Abe Stone can expertly identify mushrooms. The longtime forager’s affinity for fungi has guided him down a research path that holds promise for suppressing one of the most recent and obstinate ...

Not all fungi, plants or animals may be considered the earliest giants on earth. The tower of column of trunk-like structures ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).