Your toenail may fall off after an injury or trauma to the toe or as a side effect of certain medications you may be taking.

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests. By Veronique Greenwood The soil beneath our feet, home to fungi ...

A candy-floss-like “zombie” spider fungus, which had taken over the body of its host, has been discovered in Scotland’s west coast temperate rainforest. The find, made as part of a community ...

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in Scotland. In Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, mankind is devastated by the ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts of a thriving ecosystem. But fungi are a remarkably diverse group of ...

Playing a monotonous sound stimulates the activity of a fungus that promotes plant growth ... classical music grew a little better than those left in silence, but deeming the results inconclusive.

The Gibellula fungus infects spiders through fungal spores and grows from within the body, eventually digesting the insect whole. They can also make spiders act “like zombies” before death by ...

A quarter of the UK population have a fungal nail infection at any one time, yet only 11 per cent are aware of theirs, according to research by medicated footcare brand Excilor. “Signs include a ...

Therefore, if a person notices other symptoms ... What happens if onycholysis is left untreated? Without treatment, onycholysis can cause the nail bed to disappear. This can lead to the nail ...

As it turns out, these meagre resources are more than enough to feed some fungal species, which can then be fashioned into surprisingly tough building materials which are stronger than concrete ...