Palmyra Atoll, a remote, uninhabited speck of land, coral and sea halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa, is one of the ...

Amid growing evidence of fungi’s key role in ecosystems and storing carbon, African scientists are championing the need to preserve ‘funga’ as much as flora and fauna ...

For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm ...

A team of atmospheric and microbiological researchers, led by Alex Huffman of the University of Denver, Anna Kunert, and ...

Tiny organisms on the ground—bacteria and fungi—have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull ...

They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to ...

An increasing number of fungi are becoming resistant to medication, posing serious risks for patients with weakened immune ...

For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes connected to the outside world — our skin, hair, and gut — but research in the last few years has shown that ...

Scientists discover a hidden fungus that rots orchid roots in a matter of days, revealing why these plants die so quickly.

A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...

As space missions to Mars gain momentum, scientists are looking beyond rockets and landing systems. There is a growing focus ...

There will also be the annual State of Psychoactive Plants and Fungi in the Commonwealth of Virginia panel hosted by Will E.