If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. In a groundbreaking step toward sustainable technology, scientists in Switzerland have ...

AM fungi make threads of hyphae thinner than spider silk and weave them through plant roots. Then, they begin to trade, offering plants water and phosphorus, a vital plant nutrient in soils.

Apr. 16, 2025 — Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with ...

Watch nutrients flow through an underground circulatory system that connects fungi and plants. A new study shows how these networks form. 0:10 Researchers are trying to understand the underground ...

fungal organism in 1972. (Lucille K. Georg / ASSOCIATED PRESS) When most people think of dangerous infections, they picture bacteria or viruses. But for infectious disease specialists like Peter ...

Bacterial infections kill almost 8m people a year, and most are associated with resistant bacteria. But in recent years another kind of microbe has displayed worrying levels of resistance ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has unveiled alarming details about a "previously rarely detected" fungus, Candidozyma, also known as Candida C auris. According to a new UKHSA report ...

A peculiar fossil discovery has raised eyebrows in the scientific community, prompting researchers to rethink the boundaries ...