While the growth of these fungal ... fly agaric is a psychoactive mushroom with a long, ritualistic history among Northern European and Asiatic peoples, eventually making its way to the temperate ...

Stinkhorns are a type of mushroom from the Phallaceae family that arise in the landscape with their rancid stench. When the ...

People are lining up at the Geelong Botanic Gardens to see and smell the giant corpse flower, a rare plant that stinks like a dead body.

KUALA LUMPUR: Over RM3.1mil worth of food and cash have been channelled to the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS) for flood relief. At a cheque presentation ceremony yesterday, Singapore Red ...

She quickly sequenced some DNA from the spores and confirmed her hunch: These fruit flies were victims of E. muscae. In a 2023 report, Elya and her coworkers showed that the fungus could be secret ...

University of Maryland entomologists have uncovered a unique relationship between two species of fungi known for their ...

She said, "In the UK, fungal allergies affect as many as 30% of hay fever sufferers and up to 70% of those with severe asthma, making fungal spores a significant health concern.

Leicester researchers have developed England’s first comprehensive fungal spore calendar—a valuable new tool designed to help allergy and asthma patients better manage symptoms through ...

The fungi is very small, with some spores only measuring a few millimetres, and fruits into a distinctive shape akin to a ping pong bat. As the spores are so little, not much is known about ...

Our findings support the existence of "thunder-storm asthma." Daily asthma hospital admissions increased 15% on days with thunderstorms. This effect is smaller than the few earlier studies ...

Fungi and insects have been co-evolving for millions of years, and there are a variety of different fungi and insect relationships, some of which are beneficial. But fungi are also the most common ...