Shoring up defense against antifungal treatment leaves Candida parapsilosis perilously exposed.

As the global population climbs toward 10 billion and climate change strains farmland, scientists are searching for new ways to feed the world. A group of Cornell food science researchers say one ...

JESSICA ALLEN CRUNCHED THROUGH fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi drive nutrient flows along ‘trunk routes’ of the network, illuminating the design principles of a symbiotic supply-chain network shaped by millions of years of natural ...

A fungus aboard the ISS extracted palladium from meteorite rock, hinting at future space mining powered by living microbes.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mediocalcar gemma-coronae, an orchid recorded in Indonesia this year. Andre Schuiteman / RBG Kew In 2024, researchers at the Royal ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...

Toby Kiers was recently awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, sometimes described as the "green Nobel Prize", for her work studying mycorrhizal fungi.

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become infected ...

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