#Fungi

Farmers in Yunnan Province, China, alerted researchers to the humongous fungus. Dianjunus rex’s mushrooms stand at half a meter tall.

francesca gavin discusses phaidon’s new book on how fungi inspire art and design and what their appeal reveals about our relationship with nature.

The fungus discovered in China grows over a foot high and dates back 65 million years.

Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks in soil trade nutrients with plants, help keep carbon underground, and strike bargains without having a brain.

On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of life

Most plants do not gather nutrients from the soil entirely on their own. Many form partnerships with microscopic fungi that grow inside their roots and extend into the surrounding soil.…

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

Recent research highlights specific fungi that metabolize Martian regolith toxins, mobilize nutrients and improve structure for crops. Trichoderma, Penicillium and arbuscular mycorrhizal species show strong potential in simulants.…

Fossilized spores confirm that legions of fungi made a meal of Earth’s dying dinosaurs.

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For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm trees and restore native wildlife. A new study finds that native fungi could be instrumental to that process. Read more on E360 →

NASA and other space agencies spend a lot of time and money considering the cleanliness of their missions. Billions of dollars are spent in and on cleanrooms every year, with the express effort of ensuring both that the equipment operates without…

Some types of fungi borrowed a gene from ancient bacteria that gave the ability to make ice and trigger rain.

The golden oyster mushroom may be a culinary hit, but it’s becoming an ecological problem. Scientists warn it’s spreading quickly through U.S. forests, where it outcompetes native fungi and reduces biodiversity.…

95 percent of all shoes end up in a landfill. Fungi footwear may offer a solution.

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ability to thrive in the wake of flames

Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce.