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a piece of sliced turkey on a white plate with a side of mashed potatoes, stuffing, and green beans. a dish of cranberry sauce is on the left side

Tired of turkey? Try gene edited, meat-like fungi.

By Mack DeGeurin

rotten eggs with black and white fuzzy mold on them

Stinky ‘rotten egg’ gas could fight nail infections

By Laura Baisas

a mosquito on a white daisy

This mosquito death trap is all-natural and very deadly

By Laura Baisas

a glowing green capped mushroom

13 fascinating fungi photos that’ll really grow on you

By Popular Science Team

Close up of stink bug on leaf

These stink bugs use cordycep-like fungus to fend off parasitic wasps

a mushroom with a white stem and a red cap with white dots

Mario’s super-sized mushroom exists in real life

a toilet in the woods, covered by wooden panels

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet could replace stinky porta-potties

By Margherita Bassi

a yellow fungus with a white circle around it in a petri dish

Deadly ‘pharaoh’s curse fungus’ could be used to fight cancer

By Laura Baisas

a small rod-shaped bacteria seen under a microscope. several individual bacterium are moving along a blue surface

Watch bacteria ‘hitchhike’ and zoom around

By Laura Baisas

a female student with gloves on working with fungi in a lab

College student discovers mysterious fungus that eluded LSD’s inventor

By Laura Baisas

A “zombie ant” that has been infected by the parasitic fungus Complex Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.

Cordyceps fungus: ‘The Last of Us’ co-star thriving outside the spotlight

an illustration of two orchids and their root systems. one is growing near decomposing wood and fungi and has more flowers. the other is still growing, but does not have as many flowers

Parasitic orchids ditch photosynthesis for fungi

By Laura Baisas

a spider with a large white fungus covering its head

Fungus-infected zombie spiders discovered in Northern Ireland

By Laura Baisas

a close up of a dog's nose

Dogs sniff out two new species of truffle

By Laura Baisas

a green glow of bioluminescence from a mushroom

Artists find a green, glowing mushroom in a Swiss forest

By Laura Baisas

a white fungus with large red droplets that look like blood

That’s not blood, it’s a fungus oozing excess juice

By Laura Baisas

Fungi growing on circle and cross arrangement wood blocks

A simple experiment revealed the complex ‘thoughts’ of fungi

Leaf cutter ants

The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

dark and finger-like fungi arise from under a piece of wood

Is this the creepiest fungus in the forest? Yes, definitely.

By Laura Baisas

Two people sitting in mycocrete dome structure

Fungi spores and knitting combine to make a durable and sustainable building material