A warming climate and the use of fungicides are fueling the spread of a dangerous fungus that can invade human lungs, a new ...

A fungus called Sporothrix brasiliensis spreads from cats to humans, and concerns are growing over its rapid dispersal.

Georgina Campbell and Joe Keery in Cold Storage. Skylab, the United States’ ill-fated first space station, was launched in 1973 and came crashing back to Earth in 1979. It has been a prominent plot ...

If I didn’t know the sci-fi horror comedy “Cold Storage” was based on a 2019 novel by “Jurassic Park” screenwriter David Koepp, I would have assumed the script was over 30 years old and found in a ...

Minnesota health officials say the state is currently dealing with the United States’ “largest known outbreak” of a sexually transmitted fungus that can cause ringworm. The fungus, known as TMVII, was ...

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Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world ...

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus has infected more than 27 states in the last year, including Texas. It's called Candida auris. Since its emergence in the U.S. in 2016, the fungus has had a 34 percent ...