The mushroom Laccaria amethystina, which grows near beech trees, can be hard to see from above, given its drab cap. But by lying on the ground and looking up at the gills on the cap’s underside, an ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that there ...

December 4, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium: EU negotiators agree on new rules that could allow gene-edited foods to be sold in supermarkets without special labeling. Hegseth’s changing story on the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Fungal ecology is the scientific study of fungi and the ecosystem they are part of. It includes the interactions of fungi with their environment and with the organisms they share it with.

Essential oils are the extracted and distilled oils of different plants. These oils contain the chemical compounds that characterize and support the plant’s life cycle. Essential oils are natural ...