When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile ...

The building industry is one of the biggest generators of carbon emissions, with some estimates suggesting that 38% percent of all CO2 emissions are linked to this field. As a response to the current ...

Mycelium materials can grow from agricultural and food waste, forming foams, panels, and textiles that challenge plastics in packaging and construction.

Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are now one step closer to eventually making it a reality, according to a new study. A ...

Chris Maurer, Lead Architect at Red House Studio, behind racks of dried reishi mushrooms at his workshop on Saturday, May 17, 2025. Maurer uses a process called biocycling to grow mushrooms from ...

The mycelium is the vegetative network that forms the underground section of a fungus. It grows quickly, and stretches around any place that offers it space to grow. It is stringy. It is, as a network ...

What if I told you that your children might live in houses made of mushrooms? Perhaps you might think I had eaten one mushroom too many. But this is no fairy tale. Mushrooms — or more specifically, ...

Since its launch in 2007, New York-based Ecovative Design has garnered a lot of attention for creating building and packaging materials with low-carbon footprints by mixing agricultural waste with ...

Architecture and art meet in the "mycotecture" of Phil Ross. He has created bricks made of dried fungal mycelium to explore their use both as a building material -- he applied in 2011 for a patent, ...