The site of the former Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory in West Oakland, Calif., has sat empty for 35 years even as a housing crisis has gripped the area and led to accidents such as the Ghost Ship ...

Imagine a world where homes, clothing, and electronics are grown rather than manufactured. Mycelium, the root structure of ...

Is Fungus the Plastic of the Future? This video explores mycelium technology as a potential plastic-like replacement, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that ...

Mushroom mycelium can clean up the soil. Can it also help Indigenous people reconnect to the land? CU Boulder researcher Natalie Avalos aims to find out Fungi are powerful and versatile organisms.

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This one-bedroom, one-bathroom, single-storey house in rural Namibia looks conventional in many ways: brown rendered ...

Irish businesses are turning mycelium – fungus – into materials with the potential to rid us of plastics, and using it to ...

Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms. Now scientists are using this fungus to ...

Wood is one of the most common building materials for houses in Los Angeles due to its earthquake-proof flexibility. However, wood is entirely susceptible to the other prominent natural threat of ...

Mushrooms are having a moment. From Stella McCartney designing a bustier and trousers made of mushroom leather to the numerous mushroom elixirs and teas on the market, fungi are certainly on trend.