Fungus gnats are a common pest among houseplants. These small flies tend to go unnoticed at first, slowly building their populations by laying eggs on the soil of our container plants. Their larvae ...

Farmers have long fought a quiet war against the fungi that rot crops in fields and storage sheds. Each year, these diseases destroy harvests of lettuce, beans, oilseed rape, wheat, and many other ...

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A fungus often found in soil heavily polluted with metals can clean up organic mercury, according to a new study. The researchers also engineered a couple of genetic tweaks into the fungus that ...