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The innovation centers on a fungus called Metarhizium pingshaense, long known for its ability to kill insects. But scientists ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn ...

Mold in houses is unsightly and may cause unpleasant odors. More important though, mold has been linked to a range of health ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...