Properly cooked, it's a delicious meal. Undercooked, it causes three days of hallucinations featuring inch-tall humanoid ...

Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A deadly fungus has now spread to Connecticut. State labs confirm several cases of a yeast, a kind of fungus, called Candida auris. Dr. Scott Roberts, an infectious disease ...

A deadly fungus is spreading across the U.S., with researchers reporting that it carries a high level of resistance to convential treatments. Candida auris, a species of fungus first identified in ...

Hospitals, nursing homes and other medical facilities are struggling to gain ground on a drug-resistant and deadly fungus that has infected at least 7,000 people in 2025, according to tracking by the ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses ...

A fungus known to cause severe multi-drug resistant illness is on the rise in Michigan. The state identified more than 110 cases of Candida auris in residents in October, marking the highest one-month ...

A dangerous fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats has been detected in Nevada for the first time, marking a significant development in the spread of a pathogen that has killed millions of ...

One of the rarest fungi in Britain has been discovered for the first time in Alderney, a wildlife trust has said. The date waxcap was found by ecologist Niamh McDevitt earlier this month, said ...

Chytrid fungus is a deadly pathogen plaguing amphibians in an ongoing global pandemic, with the potential to kill off entire populations. But in one threatened Australian frog species, the infection ...

Scientists used CRISPR to boost the efficiency and digestibility of a fungus already known for its meatlike qualities. The modified strain grows protein far more quickly and with much less sugar while ...