I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

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Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool), but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

Steady summer rains bring forth a plethora of mushrooms. – that’s right, the fungus is once again among us.Although the mushrooms are always present as tiny, hair-like rootlets braided throughout ...

It’s neither plant nor animal, it can glow in the dark, and it can be deadly. No, not aliens. We’re talking about mushrooms — those strange, mouthwatering morsels that grow in the depths of the forest ...

When people talk about terraforming planets, they don’t usually think of moss as a tool, but perhaps we’ve been underrating ...

Mushrooms come in all kinds of colors. If you get out into the woods, or even in your backyard or a park, you’ll notice all kinds of fungi this fall — thanks to our extraordinarily wet summer. And ...

Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...