A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

The discovery comes from a major international study led by researchers associated with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). Using more than 16,000 soil samples and advanced ...

The “Act Two” update for first-person “clean ’em up adventure” and immersive simulation game Ambrosia Sky will launch on August 6, developer Soft Rains announced. “Act Two” follows the successful ...

You're out walking through your garden after a heavy rainstorm. Suddenly, you spot it: a bright, gelatinous, neon-orange blob clinging to the bark of your beloved maple tree. It looks like an alien ...

Hydnora is one of the strangest flowering plants ever discovered, a subterranean parasite that survives entirely by draining nutrients from the roots of other plants . It spends most of its life ...

A shell that protected the Perseverance rover during its descent to Mars in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA / JPL-Caltech As scientists search for life beyond Earth, spacecraft ...

A new experimental study has identified a novel genetic locus in a common agricultural weed, Elymus repens, that provides significant resistance to the destructive fungal disease Fusarium Head Blight ...

Keeping Mars free from Earth life is one of the most important rules in space exploration. If microbes from our planet were to survive the journey, they could interfere with experiments or even mimic ...

In Western Australia’s goldfields, researchers have discovered a strain of the fungus known as Fusarium oxysporum that has an actual ‘Midas touch.’ This organism has a pink colour and is capable of ...

To most of us, mushrooms are just weird-looking woodland growths, and a fungus is something you probably need a cream for. Increasingly, though, scientists are describing fungi as more sophisticated ...