A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...

Biodegradable battery invented by scientists in Switzerland Fungi, which is the building block of mushrooms, is the core ...

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They must therefore obtain energy from other sources. In order to do this, fungi can be saprobic, parasitic or mutualistic. Saprobic fungi are decomposers. They break down dead organic matter in order ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal ...