A rare fungal killer—Syncephalastrum oblongispora—has just claimed its first documented life in Sub-Saharan Africa. The victim: an HIV-positive patient whose weakened immune defenses were no match for this aggressive mucormycete....

Are mushrooms thinking? Not like Siri—but maybe smarter. Fungi don’t do TikTok dances, but they do

Is your brain running on outdated firmware? 🧠🍄 Say hello to Lion’s Mane—a mushroom packed with compounds that don’t just support

What if your immune system had a fungal co-pilot? 🍄 The shiitake mushroom, beloved in stir-fry, might also be whispering genetic upgrades through a compound called lentinan—tweaking T-cells and flipping...

They look like sunshine on a log and taste like they were designed by a Michelin chef. But Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources

You’ve seen the zombie ant memes. Now meet the real Cordyceps militaris—the fungus that doesn’t just possess its prey but reprograms their genetic destiny

Is the forest… conscious

Move over, astronauts—fungi might be the real stars of space travel. In multiple out-of-this-world experiments, spores have survived freezing cold, scorching UV, and cosmic radiation without

Somewhere below your toes, a network older than human speech pulses with life. Trees aren’t standing still—they’re texting each other using mushrooms as messengers. Welcome to the Wood Wide Web:...

The monsoon—India’s seasonal lifeline—has a spore-laced shadow. In Karnataka, early rains have triggered a surge in crop infections: rice blast, Phyllosticta leaf spots, Colletotrichum blights, and the dreaded Phytophthora fruit...

If mycelium hosted a camping retreat… it would be this.

Every mushroom carries a microscopic entourage—spores, dust, and debris from the environment it calls home. Now, scientists are learning to read these invisible signatures like barcodes, linking a mushroom (or...