Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order to actually freeze this water below 0°C, there must be something (a ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and ...

When we artificially induce rain or snow, we use a process called cloud seeding. Particles are launched into the sky to give water molecules a surface to freeze onto. As the ice crystals grow heavier, ...

"Mattresses are durable, bulky, and often end up in landfills," study co-author and chemical engineer The Hong Phong Nguyen ...

Fungi have long fascinated scientists and aficionados alike. These strange and often misunderstood life-forms are sought-after for food, medicine, building materials, psychedelic journeys and much ...

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Due to globalization, an aquatic fungus threatens to decimate an increasing number of amphibian species across the world.

Fungi have been recorded having conversations, with a scientist finding they can communicate with a language similar to that of humans. Over the last decade, researchers have found evidence that ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes connected to the outside world — our skin, hair, and gut — but research in the last few years has shown that ...