Lens fungus feeds on moisture and darkness, silently damaging optics. Learn how to spot, prevent and stop it before it is too ...

Scientists have caught ancient parasitic fungi in the act of bursting from insect hosts, in dramatic scenes frozen in amber.

So most fungi are actually pretty beneficial for us. IRA FLATOW: Give me an example. PATTY KAISHIAN: Basically, most terrestrial plants have some sort of partnership with fungi. Meaning the fungus is ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with trying to smuggle strains of a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the U.S.

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Nail fungus and nail psoriasis have similar symptoms, and you could have both at the same time. ... Once these organisms are on your feet or hands, they can get under your nail and multiply.

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

Fungi. This is the cause of infections like athlete's foot and ringworm. Protozoa. ... Hand sanitizers with less than that don't sufficiently kill pathogens.

But the fungus in the photos is very much real, and was recently spotted in the New Forest. The alien-like fungus has earned the nickname 'Devil's Fingers' thanks to its ghoulish, hand-like ...