Nearly a century ago, Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll provided the first demonstration of a microscope that could image specimens using electrons rather than light. The earliest images obtained via this ...

Yeast: It’s an essential ingredient for bread. After all, without it, your bread will be as flat as a pancake! Here’s a ...

Mycologist Larry Millman is on a mission to record the fungi at Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge. He’s one discovery away ...

Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to ...

According to Kew’s “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023” report, three out of four undescribed plants are threatened ...

Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants and 65 fungi. The ...

Ludhiana: It cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted, and even boiling your milk won't kill it. Veterinary scientists are sounding ...

They have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting – though frogs may disagree ...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava ...

Researchers at the University of Maine have discovered that a common interaction between a bacterium and a fungus may ...

The fungal compound verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago, has long been regarded for its potential ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...