The 2nd place winner of the Landscape category, taken by Hendy Wicakson. The well-timed shot shows lightning streaking along a volcano in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Indonesia.
What good is investing in offense if you’ve hobbled your own defense?
Scientists just found a record-setting new fungal species, the largest now known in the sprawling Ascomycota phylum. It may have feasted off dying forests during the Chicxulub mass extinction event.
Fossilized spores confirm that legions of fungi made a meal of Earth’s dying dinosaurs.
The fungus ruining Cavendish banana crops is evolutionarily distinct from a similar disease that famously killed off the Gros Michel bananas.
Scientists in Singapore say they've discovered a sixth major clade of Candida auris, an emerging and often drug-resistant fungal threat.
The Last of Us may be more real than you think. The spread of fungal pathogens in humans and other species are a disaster waiting to happen.
