For those who love mushrooms, but are not up to long walks through tick-laden woods, there is still hope. Legally harvested wild mushrooms can be sold by certified vendors in Iowa. They can sometimes ...

“Biohybrid robots” that are part fungi and part computer convert fungal electrical signals into digital commands, a promising advance in building more sustainable robots. Mycellium from this commonly ...

Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter. Fungi include symbionts of plants, animals, or ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I ...

Most fungi need only wind or water to disperse their spores. But some, including truffles, need a little help from animals. Usually, truffles and truffle-like fungi (which don’t belong to the truffle ...