A 99 million-year-old amber fossil reveals a fly infected by a zombie fungus, alongside a young ant with a similar infection.

Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus linked to ancient “mummy curses,” contains compounds effective ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

99 million-year-old amber reveals a ‘zombie fungus’ that controlled insects’ behaviour, proving nature’s horror stories ...

Research suggests new generation of young ash trees showing greater resistance to ash dieback fungus than adult trees.

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

Park officials at Rock Mountain National Park have confirmed the first case of White Nose Syndrome in a bat in Grand County, ...

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

Excellent news!! GOOOO FUNGUS!! I love science. “We found that actually this fungus works really well at killing the blacklegged ticks,” Nicoletta Faraone, the head of the lab and an associate ...

It has been confirmed that three bats at Rocky Mountain National Park were infected with a fungal disease known as white-nose ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

The toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus— known as the “Pharaoh’s Curse” due to its role in the deaths of archaeologists who ...