Mushrooms use perspiration as a tool to stay cool

Mushrooms use perspiration as a tool to stay cool

It’s not yet clear why fungi might want to stay cool. However, the discovery sheds light on a potentially fundamental aspect of fungal biology and may even have implications for human health. It is, to me, a very interesting unexplained phenomenon, said Dr. Arturo...
Mushrooms Chat About The Weather

Mushrooms Chat About The Weather

Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining for gold, fungi are craftier than we give them credit for. Now researchers in Japan have studied how forest mushrooms communicate with each other, and found that they’re mostly chatty when it rains....