Outbreak of a rare fungal disease in Tennessee leaves one dead and dozens sick - The infection can be particularly serious for people with compromised immune systems and can spread easily though inhal ...

Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

Mycologist Larry Millman is on a mission to record the fungi at Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge. He’s one discovery away ...

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

Acting Sergeant Robert Cecil Morton recalled, “In fact yeast was the nearest thing to the ‘dinkum brew’ in the camp because ...

Finding these fossils was an 'incredibly exciting moment,' according to paleobiologist Xavier Delclòs.

Look at what we found in a little piece of ginger flesh under a microscope with polarized light.

Fungi are the hidden architects of our ecosystems, acting as everything from helpful partners for plants to aggressive ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...