They taste great in soup and can get you high if you eat the wrong ones. Now, scientists have discovered an unexpected function the humble mushroom—their spores can play a role in stimulating rainfall ...

Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...

Floating above your head, invisible to the eye, are billions of fungi spores drifting around on the wind. In fact, it’s estimated that at any one time, there are probably millions of tons of them ...