A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

Scientists identified a new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, infecting cave spiders in Ireland. The fungus manipulates ...

Sickness happens, even in cats. There are a number of common illnesses that cats can have with some being more severe than ...

When David Edges's wife spotted a faint brown line on his toenail, he didn't think it was anything to worry about. But Kelly, ...

Next, on March 29, an arm, severed at the wrist, was discovered by dog walkers on Drovers Lane in Wheathampstead, also in ...

Pink eye is almost always caused by an infection that is viral. Viruses are the most common cause. Likewise, it could be caused by a fungal infection, an inflammatory response, or, in the case of ...

Contrary to what you may have heard, ringworm is caused by a fungal infection ... that causes a bull's-eye rash. Fact 3: Some people are at higher risk for ringworm infections.

A number of these concern human health ... smoke from this and other fungal and bacterial causes. Much remains to be learned about the links between wildfires and infections, and the multiple ...

Dr Martin Hoenigl, an expert on fungal ... to fungal infections spreading even further. Dr Hoenigl says: 'Humans have adapted to the increasing number of disasters, so the number of human ...

Arturo Casadevall: The premise of the show is that a scientist in 1968, predicts that with global warming cordyceps could adapt to higher temperatures and thus become a human pathogen. Paul Rand: ...

fAMR poses a critical threat to both human health and global food security. Fungal infections can be devastating, particularly for vulnerable individuals such as children with leukaemia and those ...