The best Halloween decorations sometimes come directly from nature. Intricate spider webs, enormous pumpkins, and a fungus that might stop you dead in your tracks. Commonly called dead man’s ...

Samantha Jenkins was studying a number of types of fungus in a research project for her company, when one of the fungi made a bid for freedom. "Imagine a jar full of grain with a kind of lump of ...

Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus, which causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats. Researchers have found several promising ways to thwart the fungus ...

they can look at an Aquilaria tree and predict whether it has agarwood inside or not. Ants bore into the tree trunk, causing a wound and bringing in the microorganisms, bacteria, fungus spores ...

In Salem, such skin exams (and the accusations behind them) had fizzled out by the end of 1692. The summer had been dry and the area experienced a drought, which wasn’t hospitable for ergot growth; ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they had arrested a 35-year-old woman who is suspected of smuggling a tonne of agarwood into Hong Kong from Nansha. It was the largest seizure of agarwood in ...

The child was being treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital when he or she appears to have caught the infection - a fungus called cryptococcus. The child has not been named. The fungus ...

Hong Kong customs has made its largest seizure of protected agarwood in more than two decades, discovering one tonne (2,205lbs) of the tree bark worth HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) in a sea ...

Fungus gnats are small black flies, also known as sciarid flies, mushroom flies and mycetophilids. They are a very common pest, especially when plants are grown in pots of soil-free compost. In fact, ...

So what exactly makes Louis Vuitton’s use of oud so special? Oud itself is derived from agarwood, a type of fungus-ridden wood in an otherwise healthy tree that, when left to sit for numerous, ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. A flesh-eating fungus is expanding its range in the American West – and ...

It may not be the sexiest discussion point, but we don’t shy away from even the most squeamish topics over at ES Best - and that includes nail fungus treatments. If you’re not sure whether you ...