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Most underground fungi remain unknown, and urgent action is needed to study their crucial role in sustaining ecosystems the ...
Jock itch is also known as tinea cruris. A type of fungus called tinea causes this infection. This fungus thrives in warm, moist areas such as the genitals, inner thighs, and buttocks. Infections ...
Hidden in the seed coat of a common plant, an elusive fungus has finally been found. It may lead to better treatments for ...
An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been ...
At West Virginia University (WVU), Corinne Hazel, an undergraduate major in environmental microbiology, examined morning ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year. We're at the end ...