In 1927, Robert Gordon Wasson and his wife, Valentina, spent their honeymoon in the Catskills in what would turn out to be a life-altering experience. On a walk through the woods, they came across a ...

The world of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM fungi) runs deep. They live symbiotically with around 70 percent of Earth’s ...

It’s time the world wakes up to these prolific wonders that can be found anywhere and everywhere Guy Kelly has been writing features, interviewing household names and, with mixed success, attempting ...

The world of fungi is utterly complex and virtually unknown to us, but biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake is working on the second part. He not only studies the interconnected lives of plants, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Scientists, cooks, writers and artists have for centuries known about fungi, but mainly because of ...

In the misty mizzle of February on the Oregon coast, Merlin Sheldrake feels at home. Though he was born and raised in London, the biologist and award-winning author of “Entangled Life” toddled his ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Merlin Sheldrake, 34, received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge university for his work on underground fungal ...

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life ...

Merlin Sheldrake has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Bodley Head), praised by judges for its ...