One particular fungus, Beauveria bassiana, causes the immune system to kill brain cells, promoting neurodegeneration.

Once the team made MuMuTAs work, they used five of them to actuate multi-jointed fingers in a robotic hand.

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared. Cities ...

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...

Scientists have developed a specialized imaging robot to track plant-fungal trade networks, revealing nature’s underground ...

New research published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2025, uses advanced robotics to track the hyper-efficient supply chains formed between plants and mycorrhizal fungi as they trade carbon ...

The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to bolster global food security ...

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

Researchers are training ‘mighty’ marine fungi to quickly eat polyurethane, one of our most common plastics. In a world that relies on plastic, the time it takes to break down is a major problem. But ...

Wood-decay fungi can be remarkably territorial. Cut through a rotten log, and you’ll often see black lines running through the wood. That’s melanin—the same pigment that darkens human skin—which fungi ...

For over a century, scientists have analyzed the vast microbial world within the human body. They’ve found bacteria, fungi, ...

Several calcineurin pathway genes in each of the major human fungal pathogens have also been disrupted and show effects on fungal growth and virulence. However, the effects are not uniform ...