While shooting a documentary at Castle Espie in Northern Ireland in 2021, a film crew came across a dead spider covered in a strange white substance in an abandoned gunpowder store. Now, scientists ...

Image These fungi cannot live on their own; they need the carbon from plants. In turn, 80 percent of the world’s plants rely on fungal networks to survive and thrive. The two are dependent trade ...

Marine fungi isolated from around O'ahu eating polyurethane plastic. The translucent halos around the fungal plugs on the Petri dish show the areas of plastic degradation. Plastic is the most ...