A sinister fungus is spreading through California’s bat populations, threatening their survival just as the spooky season ...

Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a ...

A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the ...

Scientists have discovered that ants began farming fungi 66 million years ago, right after an asteroid impact created ideal ...

“Unlike other similar looking ‘Coral’ fungi, these grow on decaying wood, instead of emerging from the ground." He seeks rare ...

While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...

McMaster University biologist Jianping Xu is part of a team studying the bacteria and fungi that grow on bats' wings and can ...

Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers ... making up roughly an average 40 percent of the microbial genetic material found in leaf mucilage. The team then sprinkled powdered ants ...

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats has been detected in several counties across California this year, ...

The relentless progression of multi-drug resistance (MDR) among microbial pathogens poses significant challenges to current therapeutic strategies across the globe. In the fight against MDR infections ...

The pathogen endangers strawberry crops and, consequently, .....growers. To address this issue, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research ...

A team of Agricultural Research Service and university scientists has released two new oat germplasm lines to shore up the ...