Need some assistance with NYT Strands today? Today's theme — "A fungus among-us" — isn't so much a clue as the complete answer, but that doesn't mean finding the other words will be easy. Below, we've ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts of a thriving ecosystem. But fungi are a remarkably diverse group of ...

The microbiome—that teeming mass of essential and coevolved bacteria and viruses that makes humans more microbe than man—just got a little more diverse. A team of researchers led by scientists at ...

10. GROW UP! Elevate Your Garden Beds Since being diagnosed with osteoarthritis pain in 2015, Shawna Coronado has been learning tricks for how to reduce her chronic inflammatory pain while in the ...

Lisa Winter became social media editor for The Scientist in 2017. In addition to her duties on social media platforms, she also pens obituaries for the website. She graduated from Arizona State ...

The growth revealed fungal decision-making in action. In past work, the team learned that a fungus will forgo trading with nearby roots in favor of more distant ones if the return in carbon is ...

This video has many close up shots of individual mushrooms. It begins by fading into nature sounds. We can hear birds tweeting in the woods. A soft piano melody fades in. A close up shot of a white ...