New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership ...

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.

Every year, plants move 3.58 gigatons of carbon to mycorrhizal fungi, their underground partners—enough, in fact, that if it ...

Playing a monotonous sound stimulates the activity of a fungus that promotes plant growth, a study suggested on Wednesday, ...

Australia would be the likely winner from a shift in global canola trade flows should China impose tariffs on Canadian ...

When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, ...

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked a remarkable relationship between ants and fungi, a new study has ...

Humans might live in mushroom colonies, built using fungus, algae and water on the Moon in the coming years. This is if ...

LSU AgCenter mycologist Vinson P. Doyle and LSU Department of Biological Sciences professor Brant C. Faircloth lent their combined expertise to a study led by Smithsonian Institution entomologist Ted ...

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests.

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in ...