A team of researchers in Japan has made a baffling discovery while studying fungi: they can not only recognize shapes, they ...

An ability to sense and respond to the world is vital for the survival of most organisms, but methods of perception can vary ...

So, they put out a few wood-block food sources for their fungus (the wood-eating Phanerochaete velutina) in two different ...

Researchers have discovered that fungi, despite lacking brains, exhibit forms of intelligence such as memory, learning, and ...

An asteroid caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. But it also enabled the first form of agriculture... long before the ...

More information: Yu Fukasawa et al, Spatial resource arrangement influences both network structures and activity of fungal mycelia: A form of pattern recognition?, Fungal Ecology (2024).

in two different arrangements—one circle and one cross— to see how they would form their mycelia. Each block was pre-colonized with the fungus and could provide a jumping-off point for the ...

Mycologists believe the solution to some of our biggest pollution issues is under our feet. Humble fungi are now being used ...

fungal-forward, meatless Mexican mycelia across town in ways that a crowded, underequipped kitchen commissary simply can’t contain. There’s no stopping their Green Monster, a banana leaf ...

Nicole Hynson In order to grow robust saplings that can bolster the species in the wild, Hynson’s team is wielding an emerging tool in the arsenal of plant conservation: mycorrhizal fungi.