One of the world’s most widely cultivated edible mushrooms, Lentinula edodes - or shiitake - has a lesser-known British connection. This holotype specimen was collected during the Challenger ...

Once the spider dies in that exposed position ... season every 13 or 17 years - and it has the most ingenious strategem of ...

Scientists are digitising the Fungarium at Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew – one of the world’s biggest collections of fungal diversity.

When antifungal medications aren’t effective, the fungus can spread more easily and infections can be hard or even impossible to treat. People with a healthy immune system may be able to fight off ...

and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it causes. Cordyceps are parasitic fungi that usually attack insects, arthropods, or other fungi. Essentially, the Cordyceps ...