While scaling mountains in PEAK, you will come across a lot of mushrooms, out of which some are poisonous. There are different types of mushrooms that you will find, and they’re mostly useful. However ...

Before the experts were rushing to find treatments and testing for the coronavirus, some were busy trying to find ways to detect mushroom poison. Earlier this year, a team at the U.S. Department of ...

Death cap mushrooms were in the headlines this week after an Australian woman received a life sentence for fatally poisoning some of her family members with the toxic fungus. But recent research has ...

Amateur mycologist Arne Martinson guides mushroom identification tours through northern Wisconsin, discovering unexpected colors amongst the leaves of the Northwoods, from iconic Amanita muscaria to ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic ...