The CDC last week issued an alert about a new variant of a genital fungal infection detected in New York City. It’s called tinea, also known as ringworm (or “jock itch” if it’s in the ...

Aspergillosis is the infection caused by the fungus Aspergillus. This fungus is found in many places, such as in plants and soil, and is commonly found inside homes, in the dust, air ducts, and even ...

Australia / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Lawn gnats, also known as fungus gnats (Orfelia and Bradysia species), are small, delicate flies about one-eighth inch long. They spend most of their lives in ...

At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Wildlife officials confirmed the presence in California of a bat-killing fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome. California ...

Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene. This type of mushroom called Hydnellum peckii also goes by “devil’s tooth fungus” or the much more pleasant sounding ...

INFORMATION AT THIS TIME. WELL, AN INVASIVE FUNGUS THAT IS DEADLY TO BATS HAS NOW BEEN FOUND ACROSS THE SACRAMENTO REGION. THE FUNGUS HAS BEEN KNOWN TO WIPE OUT MILLIONS OF BATS IN NORTH AMERICA.

It's the real-life horror story of a flesh-eating, brain-warping fungus from the genus Cordyceps, which inspired the zombie-apocalypse video game and "TV series The Last of Us." But the species ...

The genre makes for some incredibly satisfying gameplay. The very first dungeon crawler video game to exist was developed in 1975, called pedit5. The genre is still going strong many years later ...

A sinister fungus is spreading through California’s bat populations, threatening their survival just as the spooky season takes flight. (Nenad Milosevic/Unsplash) First detected on the East Coast ...