One of the main foods high in Vitamin B, mushrooms can help keep your immune system healthy with oyster and shitake taking ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Why are some fungi helpful and others harmful? asks Paul Glaister from Reading. Rutherford and Fry try to outdo each other with fungal top trumps in their attempt to find the answer. As Hannah ...

Once the work is done, it digests itself from the inside. Fungi are a source of fascination. This kingdom of life -- more closely related to animals than to plants -- encompasses an enormous variety.

Fungi used to be overlooked as a low-calorie, low-nutrition food, but in fact many are full of nutrients. According to biochemist and herbalist Martin Powell, many produce compounds that show ...

A fungus named in honour of Sir David Attenborough has been found infecting and manipulating spiders in a Northern Ireland cave turning them into The Last of Us -style “ zombies ”. At such a critical ...

After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed to thrive where the radiation was highest. Cladosporium ...

The culprit is actually a group of fungi called dermatophytes ... let’s get down to the facts. Fact 1: Ringworm is easy to treat. You can usually treat mild cases of ringworm with an antifungal ...

Fungi could be classed alongside animals and plants as a separate realm for environmental protection under plans drawn up by the UK and Chile. The proposal, submitted to a UN conference on ...