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Cordyceps add a pop of color and umami to ramen.
food

How to Cook a Delicious Meal With Zombie Fungus

Conquer your "Last of Us" fears by consuming Cordyceps.
Natalie Zarrelli March 10, 2023
science

By Air, Land, or Sea, Tiny Microbes Transform Our World

They often get a bad rap, but bacteria prevent erosion, undergird ecosystems, and make artificial snow.
Susanne Wedlich March 7, 2023
Australia's other egg-laying mammal, the echidna, has a curious collection of traits, including rear-facing back feet and a unique use of "jazz hands."
science

Revisiting the Weird and Wonderful Nature of 2022

This year, we met creatures (and other living things) great and small, from the world’s largest organism to microscopic parasites.
Gemma Tarlach December 30, 2022
Fruiting bodies of the parasitic fungus <em>Ophiocordyceps</em> emerge from the body of a fly in Tambopata National Reserve, Peru. This photo won top prize in the 2022 <em>BMC Ecology and Evolution</em> image competition.
zombies

Real Zombies and Body Snatchers Live Among Us

A creepy form of parasitism is one of evolution's favorite strategies, and scientists are starting to figure out how it works.
Gemma Tarlach October 20, 2022
The Humongous Fungus is most visible when it produces the edible and tasty honey mushroom, but the season is brief and doesn’t happen every year.
forests

What the World's Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forest Health

In Oregon, the Humongous Fungus plays a complex role in an ecosystem reshaped by humans.
Colin Hogan May 6, 2022
The "sarcophagus" covering the fourth block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 2018.
disasters

Chernobyl's Strange Black Fungi Have a Superpower

The organisms, growing at the Ukrainian site amid invasion and occupation, may one day help keep space travelers safe.
Eden Arielle Gordon April 1, 2022
nature

Podcast: The World’s Oldest LIving Things

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 31, 2022
nature

Podcast: The World’s Oldest Living Things

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 10, 2021
One of da Vinci's self-portraits in the laboratory.
art

Zooming in on the Microbiome of Some da Vinci Masterpieces

A new study found plenty of bacteria, fungi, and insect remains, but nothing to be alarmed about.
Matthew Taub November 25, 2020
A test trench was dug at the site, some 50 miles south of Oslo, to inspect the find before it's further excavated.
ships

A Viking Burial Barge Is Being Swallowed By Fungus

The maritime tomb in Norway is the first of its kind to be excavated in a century.
Isaac Schultz May 18, 2020
A small snail's new diet has some big implications.
fungus

What Tiny Snail Poop Could Mean For Latin America's Coffee Farms

“I just followed a trail of excrement.”
Luke Fater February 13, 2020
Believe it or not, this picture was taken on land.
nature

A Wave of Colorful ‘Coral’ Fungi Is Washing Over Wales

The magenta-colored blooms are rare but easy to spot.
Sabrina Imbler November 26, 2019
The suburb of Shively is notorious for its blanket of "whiskey fungus"
whiskey

The Dark Side of the 'Angel’s Share'

Kentucky's bourbon industry is covering its neighbors in black fungus.
Anne Marshall October 30, 2019
Bunches and bunches of Cavendishes.
food

No, the Banana Apocalypse Is Not Around the Corner

But Colombia’s outbreak of lethal banana fungus is still bad news.
Sabrina Imbler August 16, 2019
Etchison rappels into yet another mine.
gold rush

North Carolina’s Abandoned Gold Mines Don’t Have Gold, But Do Have Bats

A deadly disease could devastate these thriving colonies of winged critters.
Sabrina Imbler August 14, 2019
A lovely desert truffle.
deserts

As Israel’s Desert Truffles Become Scarce, a Researcher Works to Grow Them as Crops

Decades of work have led to a breakthrough.
Lela Nargi July 1, 2019
Welcome to the MosquitoSphere.
science

Inside Burkina Faso’s Mosquito Dome, Where Venomous Fungus Is Put to the Test

An innovative research center dedicated to blood, biting, and beating back malaria.
Sabrina Imbler June 14, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Omajowa

Massive mushrooms spring from tall termite mounds during rainy season in Namibia.