A new study reveals how biological branching networks use surface geometry to shape blood vessels, brains, and plants.

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Do trees actually talk to each other? And if so, how do they do it? Just over 20 years ago, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees do communicate with each other, and it's through a fungal ...

For the first time ever, researchers have mapped the underground network of microbes connecting forest trees around the world using an enormous data set of more than 1.1 million forest plots. Mapping ...

Just over 20 years ago, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees do communicate with each other, and it's through a fungal network scientists have nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Simard studied how ...

My friend Paul sent me a link to a fascinating TED talk by Suzanne Simard, professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. She has established trees in a forest collaborate and has ...

Some call it the wood-wide web. Officially, it is known as the mycorrhizal network. And what is it actually? A vast internet of tiny fungi filaments that connect trees throughout entire forests.

Trees rely on a network of fungal friends for good health. Mycorrhizal (from the Greek “myco” fungus, and “rhizae” root) fungi occur naturally, and help trees in many ways. The fungi help the trees ...