We've all seen the occasional mushroom bloom in our yard or the park, but they aren't plants, so how exactly to these fun ...

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What unites animals, plants, fungi, and protists in the same domain is the fact that they’re all composed of eukaryotic cells ...

Inside the ultra-clean rooms where NASA assembles its Mars-bound spacecraft, the air is filtered, the surfaces are scrubbed ...

Imagine ordering a truffle dish in a fancy restaurant, and you might picture pricey gourmet mushrooms from France or Italy. But recent decades have seen an upstart on the truffle scene. Today, one of ...

Forests seem sturdy and solid from the outside, but there might be something happening silently underneath. Some fungi can cause trees to decay internally and leave them weakened without showing any ...

The ground beneath your feet may be carrying on a kind of conversation. Research into fungal electrical signaling has found that underground networks of fungi generate patterns bearing a striking ...

Seventy-five years ago, in the depths of a peat bog in Yorkshire, UK, archaeologists made a startling discovery: the perfectly preserved remains of dozens of 11,000-year-old mushrooms. Carefully cut ...

Aquatic Animals Mystery of golden orb found in depths of ocean off Alaska finally solved: 'Everyone was like, What the heck? What is that?' Octopuses 'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the ...

Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, ...