A weird, deadpan animated thriller finds a new timeliness in ancient medicine. By James Poniewozik From “The Last of Us” to athlete’s foot commercials, fungus does not have the best of ...

Turns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are ...

A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a fungus. Now, scientists at Cornell University have developed a new biohybrid robot that uses ...

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An ant, no longer in control of its body, crawls away from its colony, hangs perilously on a leaf, and waits to die as a fungus consumes its body, emerges from its head, and releases spores into ...