Nature's hidden spectacle, bioluminescent mushrooms, illuminate forests with an otherworldly glow. These fungi, found in ...

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Analysis of airflow patterns around models of mushrooms and fresh fruiting bodies in a low speed wind tunnel showed division of the airstream at the leading edge of the cap, an increase in wind speed ...

As has been noted on numerous occasions in this space, everything about a fruiting structure -- from dandelion seeds that become airborne, fruits and seeds that float, fruits that attract animals to ...

Biologists have long thought that the spores produced by a mushroom’s cap simply drop into the wind and blow away. The problem with that notion, scientists say, is that spores can be dispersed even ...

High-speed video has revealed that the incredible variety of fantastic forms taken by fungal spores helps them catapult themselves into the air. For hundreds of years, scientists have described the ...

Psilocybin must be useful in some way to the fungi. In fact, it may be so useful that it has evolved this mind-altering ...

Mushrooms must scatter their spores to make little mushrooms. And we've long assumed that they rely on a friendly breeze for spore spreading. But a new study shows that mushrooms can create their own ...

Some mushroom-eating slugs may be important – if slow – dispersal vehicles for fungal spores, which the animals spread through their faeces. Nobuko Tuno at Kanazawa University in Japan had been ...

The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

Within biology, mushrooms have sometimes been written off as uncomplicated organs that simply produce as many spores as possible. How far those spores traveled across a landscape, researchers assumed, ...

Breakfast is a fantasy for most of us, an opportunity that might, if we're lucky, be afforded by retirement; more often than not, we race into Starbucks while carbon dioxide trails from the car left ...