"This is nature's irony at its finest... The same fungus once feared for bringing death may now help save lives." Not long ...

"Tales of Terror: The Curse of King Tut" follows the curse-laden mysteries surrounding those involved in discovering and excavating King Tut's tomb and the media frenzy that followed.

When King Tut's tomb was opened, those involved in the discovery started 'mysteriously' dying. Is the Curse of the Pharaohs real, or can it be explained in another way? Science has tried to explain ...

A fungus that is thought to have claimed the lives of several excavators working on King Tutankhamun's burial site has had a ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at cancer-killing fungi, robots that perform surgery on your eyeballs, ...

A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

It gained notoriety after being connected to unexplained deaths that followed the opening of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s. Later investigations into these mysterious deaths suggested that ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Researchers have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a toxic fungus previously associated with the "curse of the pharaohs," ...

A mushroom once thought to be an ancient Egyptian curse has been found to be a potential cure for some forms of cancer.

Tutankhamun's tomb was first opened by archeologists in November 1922, after Carter spent years searching the so-called "Valley of the Kings" for a previously undiscovered tomb.