Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it ...

Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite ...

Fungi have become Hollywood’s go-to bad guys. But as yet another story focuses on Cordyceps, Nick Crumpton says we are missing a chance to broaden our fictional horizons ...

To keep the bulky polyurethane foam material found in mattresses from the landfill, the team is using Penicillium chrysogenum ...

A super-bug resistant to multiple modern antibiotics has been discovered trapped in 5,000-year-old ice. The bacteria was found in the Scarisoara ice cave in Romania after scientists drilled 25 metres ...

The federal government has been urged to act now.

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

“It’s a pretty exciting time in fungal conservation,” said Allen, mycologist for NatureServe, a hub for biodiversity data ...