HBO’s adaption of The Last of Us, which aired last year, brought fungi’s pathogenic nature to center stage. The silver screen reputation isn’t without due cause: Fungal infections from invasive ...

Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. New University of California, Riverside research finds the secret to post-fire ...

Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University of Texas at ...