Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? “Candida parapsilosis is a leading cause of candidemia worldwide, particularly among ...

VD for Valentine’s Day? In case you needed a reason to stay celibate this weekend, there’s a sexually transmitted fungus making the rounds and leaving its mark. Experts say the public should be aware ...

Minnesota health officials say the state is currently dealing with the United States’ “largest known outbreak” of a sexually transmitted fungus that can cause ringworm. The fungus, known as TMVII, was ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

Parents push for answers after former Ponaganset High School teacher's indictment A school committee member is calling for an independent investigation after a grand jury indicts a former Ponaganset ...

The title sounds like something from the fertile imagination of Charles Mingus. A blindfold listening test might throw up Sun Ra. "A Fungus Amungus," however, is Mary Lou Williams and nothing but.

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East ...

Research over the years has found that a black mold, formed from a number of different fungi, has been growing toward radioactive particles, and surviving on ionizing radiation, at the Chernobyl ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

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 ...

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.” That’s a recently discovered bit of science related to the zombie-apocalypse video ...

A fatal fungus once thought to be a curse could potentially help fight disease. Scientists discovered molecules in a fungus linked to Tutankhamun's tomb that stop the proliferation of cancer cells and ...