Say you find a coin. Say you have no idea if it's worth a million dollars or less than the leaf of grass you picked it up from. What should you do? Take a picture of it and post it on a subreddit ...

When it comes to upgrading the pitching staff, Craig Breslow’s path is pretty straightforward. Just get as many good arms as possible and worry about the rest later. But when it comes to sorting out ...

A fungus known to cause severe multi-drug resistant illness is on the rise in Michigan. The state identified more than 110 cases of Candida auris in residents in October, marking the highest one-month ...

The black fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum was living on walls even in zones of the Chernobyl reactor ruins with record-high levels of radiation, scientists discovered, according to an article in ...

Inside the shattered remains of Chernobyl's Unit Four reactor, where ionizing radiation still lingers at levels lethal to humans, scientists have made a remarkable discovery: a fungus that seems ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This microscopic, parasitic fungus evolved to hijack ants’ ...

Data privacy campaigners have warned that any celebration of the news that the European Union (EU) has abandoned its plans to break end-to-end encryption in mobile messaging apps could be short-lived.

Cutely named decorating trends come and go so quickly these days that I can hardly keep up. But occasionally an idea with a catchy name comes around that has some staying power. When a video by ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...

A team of researchers has developed a floral-scented fungus that tricks mosquitoes into approaching and dying. The fungus emits longifolene, a natural scent that irresistibly draws them in. It’s ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview on Bleeding Cool, where the inferior Jude Terror has been permanently ...