You lovingly nurture your compost bin like it’s a pet—tossing kitchen scraps and yard waste with dreams of rich soil to feed your garden. But imagine your compost quietly turning into an unwelcome ...

An international team reported fungal proteins that nucleate ice at about -2 C, a finding with implications for weather ...

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A US startup supplies spray for fast-growing loblolly pines with the hope of increasing biodiversity – and reducing the need for artificial fertiliser ...

Fungal networks in the soil are arguably the basis of much of life on Earth, but they’re understudied and underappreciated in the conservation world. Scientists at the Society for the Protection of ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the fungus lives in moist soil conditions commonly found in ...

Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about ...

In the film The Martian, there is a scene where astronaut Mark Watney, left alone on Mars, grows potatoes himself to survive. What looked like a flight of cinematic imagination is becoming reality as ...