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

The search for life on Mars has been fruitless so far but a group of fringe ET researchers believe they have found the holy grail. According to a study published in the journal Advances in ...

The Stinkhorn Fungus, which comes in a lattice like sphere, or a forked starfish shape, produces a dark brown to black slime containing spores on their surface, which has an intense smell of rotting ...

The discovery of alien life outside of Earth promises to be the greatest scientific breakthrough of the modern era. To date, scientists have been unable to find a shred of proof suggesting life is not ...

Chamonixia caespitosa found during rewilding project in west Highlands while removing non-native Sitka spruce Naturalists have found a very rare type of truffle living in a Scottish forestry ...

Microsporidia cause diarrhea, an illness called microsporidiosis and even death in immune-compromised individuals. In spite of those widespread medical problems, scientists were uncertain about how ...

90% are unknown still but the species which have been studied have given us penicillin, ways of breaking down plastics, food and bio fuels but they can also be dangerous. Neither animal nor vegetable, ...

Are fungi out to get us or here to help? Neither animal nor vegetable, they are both amongst us and within us, shaping or lives in ways it is difficult to imagine. They can also be very tasty. An ...