For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi. For years, mycologists and hobbyists alike have been using DNA sequencing on foraged fungi. A coral fungus ...
Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Through a microscope, Matt Nelsen peers at an ant clinging to a branch with a death grip. A long spike shoots from the insect’s back — the calling card of the “zombie” fungus that killed this tiny ...