Wood is one of the most abundant materials on Earth, and it is also one of the most stubborn. Its lignocellulosic structure ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

This single misunderstanding, that the mushroom is the fungus, is responsible for most of ...

Lignin, which strengthens plant cell walls, is a complex polymer that is difficult to decompose. Some fungi have acquired the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied ...

While it may be the reason behind tires skidding, pipes bursting, and closed roads making traffic a nightmare, ice doesn’t always form as easily as it seems. It often gets an assist from proteins made ...

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.

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Mushrooms, like this psychoactive Psilocybe mexicana variety, are the fruiting bodies of certain fungi. Fungus species are believed to outnumber all animals, plants and birds combined. (Jahi ...

When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise from the ashes is usually a fungus - one of several species that cannot complete its life cycle in the absence of fire. Scientists have ...

Science is sometimes caricatured as a wholly objective pursuit that allows us to understand the world through the lens of neutral empiricism. But the conclusions that scientists draw from their data, ...