Every day, 50,000 mattresses are tossed in the trash in the United States. A relative of penicillin could be the cure.

“Insect herbivores have long been known to accumulate plant defense metabolites from their diet as defenses against their own ...

In 2024, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded 172 new species of plants and fungi across the globe, from England to Cameroon. Scientists highlighted 10 particularly remarkable ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...

Swinburne researchers have turned old, unwanted mattresses into safe and sustainable building insulation materials using fungi. The team grew a common fungus together with shredded mattress foam to ...

Fungal infections are becoming deadlier as drug resistance spreads and treatment options stall. Researchers at McMaster University discovered that a molecule called butyrolactol A can dramatically ...

We unlock the science of the forest's underground network and reveal how trees use a fungal network to communicate.

One of the worst things to see on the side of the road—besides a very unfortunate animal—is an abandoned mattress. Dealing with unwanted mattresses is admittedly difficult; you can’t exactly stuff ...

For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering phosphorus and other soil minerals in exchange for sugars and fats produced by ...

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For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species of fungi the doomed birds ate. The snacks, including purple lumps of a trufflelike fungus, ...