Mycology

A Redefinition of Art and Science within Subversive Revolutionary Totality. Written 2004 and originally published on the Dialectical Butterfiles website.

This psychedelic fungi has mystified people for thousands of years. Now it's the latest wellness trend

The result of more than two years of cultivation, this giant, white cloud-like mushroom also has psychedelic properties.

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

A woman in the United Kingdom found and ate an 11-pound puffball mushroom, which fed her family for a week of meals, she said. Experts share important warnings about wild mushrooms, however.

C. auris may become more of a problem as it seems to adapt to warming temps and avert treatments.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their short visit still has visible, and vibrant, effects.

Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving some unprepared psychonauts in distress.

Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the underground fungal network that can...

The big puma fungus hasn't been seen since it was discovered in 1982 in Chile's Nahuelbuta mountains – now an expedition has finally rediscovered these tiny, elusive mushrooms

As wildfires grow in size and severity, researchers are learning more about the burn scar pioneers that are foundational to ecosystem recovery.

B. dendrobatidis is ravaging frog and toad populations, but its weakness is a virus we could weaponize

A small molecule library consisting of 40 compounds, specifically N-substituted maleimide and its derivatives, were initially screened in a study published in the journal Mycology, which was led by Prof. Ying Li (Xuzhou Medical University), Prof. Zuobin Zhu (Xuzhou Medical University), and Prof. Wenqiang Chang (Shandong University).

A study by the Mycology and Environmental Microbiology Unit of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has identified new species of fungi that may cause infections or diseases in people and animals. Carried out in river ecosystems, the research is part of a project on biodiversity and the role played by a large group of fungi, the ascomycetes, in the aquatic ecosystem.

Nearly 1,000 new species were discovered by scientists in 2023, including hundreds of wasps and a legless lizard.

My late Uncle Pepe was an avid mushroom hunter, rising early on late-summer Saturdays, field guide in hand, to head to a local New York City park for his weekly forage. Upon his return, my Aunt Jenny would meticulously wash the hen-of-the-woods, turkey tail or other fungi free of soil

Nature has its own horrors to rival the classic legendary ghouls and monsters of fiction.

A striking purple species is one piece of the fungal kingdom's uncharted diversity

What are death cap mushrooms and what symptoms would you experience if you ate them? Experts break it down.

Almost 2,000 poisonings linked to wild mushrooms were recorded in France in 2022. A total of 1,923 intoxications were reported to poison control centers