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 ...

Research has shown that fungal lung infections in the lungs can possibly be mistaken for lung cancer. Fungal lung infections may appear similar to lung cancer in both the symptoms they cause and how ...

Here, the authors present a rapid molecular diagnostic method based on magnetic fungal enrichment and CRISPR-based detection. In social insects, the relative roles of individual immunity and ...

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.

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nicole Hynson In order to grow robust saplings that can bolster the species in the wild, Hynson’s team is wielding an emerging tool in the arsenal of plant conservation: mycorrhizal fungi.

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 ...

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 ...