The UK and Chile leading push for mouldy organisms to have the same status as flora and fauna in global conservation efforts ...

This offers a potential biological toolkit for improving plastic recycling technologies. The study focuses on reprogramming LPMO enzymes from filamentous fungi to target plastics for degradation. The ...

In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) reported on the discovery of a fungus capable of breaking down ...

Yet, plastic shares analogous properties with other—natural—recalcitrant polymers, like wood cellulose, which can be broken down by filamentous fungi. The fungi achieve this by secreting an ...

It was this work with bacteria that inspired Dr. Robinson and his colleagues to see if the same were true of a beneficial fungus. First, the scientists lined big plastic tubs with soundproofing ...

Researchers have discovered that fungi, despite lacking brains, exhibit forms of intelligence such as memory, learning, and ...

But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the ...

Climate change has the potential to make fungi even more hazardous to our health, according to research at Duke University. Asiya Gusa's climate change research focuses on how warming temperatures ...

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in Scotland. In Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, mankind is devastated by the ...

Fungi producing mushrooms directly out of wood are another matter. Trunks, branches, and major roots with mushrooms sprouting out of the bark indicate that the wood underneath is decaying.

But this destruction and decay appear to have been a golden opportunity for fungi that decomposed the dead plants. The ancestors of modern leaf-cutters and other fungus-farming ants also ...