The patches of lichen you've probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they're ...

Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

Although every breath we take contains thousands of fungal spores, these spores do not trigger an immune response. Latgé and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of Nature, show that the surface ...