A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...

Other year-end selections are much larger than a zombie mushroom. In Peru, researchers described an acanth shrub that reaches ...

Experts say mind-controlling mushrooms aren't an imminent threat, but anti-fungal drug resistance is. Here's the science fact and fiction behind the show, and the possibility of a fungal pandemic. The ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ahead of the return of the hit fungus-zombie horror series The Last of ...

They may not bite like mosquitoes, stink like stinkbugs, or pile up in rugby scrums like spotted lanternflies, but when it comes to widespread annoyance, fungus gnats rank up there with the big-boy ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” By Kate Golembiewski An abandoned gunpowder storage shed pokes out ...

Alarm has been raised about a dangerous fungus called Candida auris, which has previously been classified as an "urgent antimicrobial resistance (AR) threat" by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Albumin is the most common protein in the blood, a vital molecule produced by the liver that helps maintain fluid balance and ...

Black fungus (Auricularia polytricha) is an edible wild mushroom sometimes known as tree ear or cloud ear fungus, given its dark, ear-like shape. While predominantly found in China, it also thrives in ...

A parasitic fungus known to manipulate the brains of ants doesn't make slavelike "zombies" out of any old host. Instead, the microorganism is somehow able to recognize the brains of different ant ...