A high percentage of Germany's wild boars are radioactive while other animals in the region are not. Scientists have a surprising theory about what makes them so radioactive. A new study found that ...

University of Florida biologists studying fungal evolution and ecology have discovered three new truffle species, including one capable of commanding hundreds of dollars per pound within culinary ...

Flora Todesco and Claude Murat are the pair behind WeTruf, a company formed expressly to deploy scientific know-how on the cultivation of truffles. They met working in a lab; Flora is CEO, while Murat ...

France has declared war on a humble interloper – the cheap imported Chinese truffle – which it says is destroying the reputation of its proud culinary traditions. Imports of the Chinese variety have ...