Next time you pass a roadside farm, don't hold your nose. The source of that smell could fuel your car someday. Scientists have found out how to harness the power of fungi from the guts of horses, ...

The University of Minnesota recently received a $1.5-million grant to study a potential alternative energy source: fungi. The approximately $1.5 million grant was awarded in September by the U.S.

Fungi have the potential to capture and store carbon from the atmosphere, providing a natural solution to carbon capture and storage. Loam Bio's project in Australia is experimenting with using fungi ...

The genetic make-up of heat-loving fungi could form the basis of better enzymes for use in the extraction of sugars from biomass for the next generation of biofuels. A team of researchers from the ...

Walking around the Wayne National Forest, you can see mushrooms growing on the sides of logs or from the ground. Molly Jo Stanley, southeast Ohio regional director for the Ohio Environmental Council, ...

Why and how certain types of mushrooms glow has long confused scientists, but now they think they might have an answer. It appears that some fungi emit light to attract insects at night, which then ...

This cool discovery in the ruins of Chernobyl is now helping to understand how life on Earth copes with radiation, and how humans can stay safe in space in the future.

In 2018, researchers even sent one of the Chernobyl molds, a strain dubbed Cladosporium sphaerospermum, to the International ...

Based on her results, Dadachova contends that these melanized fungi could be used to feed space travelers on long extended trips into space. An abundance of high-energy ionizing gamma radiation in ...

A team of researchers is working to use naturally-occurring fungi for an environment-friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries. “The idea first came from a student ...

Research has found a black mold has been growing toward and surviving on the ionizing radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear ...