Kobe University researchers found that orchids rely on wood-decaying fungi to germinate, feeding on the carbon from rotting logs. Their seedlings only grow near deadwood, forming precise fungal ...

This finding exposed a hidden carbon transfer. The fungi fed on deadwood, absorbed its carbon, and passed it to orchids. In ...

A rare fungus has been spotted in Leicestershire for the first time. The Candelabra Coral was recorded in Burrow Wood, near ...

Those toadstools, puffballs, earth-stars and other fungi springing up now can alarm gardeners. Digging out fungi or applying ...

New research from Kobe University reveals that fungi decomposing deadwood provide essential carbon for wild orchids, helping ...

The Kobe University team report that amongst seeds of four model orchid species they buried in various forest locations, they ...

Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they ...

From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a ...

Nature has been interesting us with wonders for centuries, and of these wonders, one of the most fascinating is bioluminescence, the phenomenon of organisms being able to produce light. Though many ...

Superwood, which we looked at earlier this year prior to its launch, is the result of a lengthy mission by material scientist Liangbing Hu, co-founder of ...

Fungi! They are everywhere, from the soil in your lawn to the highest branches in the trees outside, the darkest corners of ...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles of organic ...