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 ...

A mushroom farm near Nairobi is producing mycelium for building materials that end up as fungi-based panels, a more ...

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.

Often hidden from view, fungi are a critical part of our ecosystems. Some can be eaten as mushrooms; others help trees and forests thrive. But that’s not all: they’re also helping us create low-cost, ...

Their friendship was rooted in a mutual love of mushrooms. Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton met in 1978 in Olympia, Wash. Back then, Stamets was a student and aspiring mycologist, and Chilton was a ...

CellX is using an asset-light model to cost-efficiently scale production and launch a CPG brand, demonstrating the potential of its morel mushroom mycelium Food tech company CellX is growing beyond ...

When it comes to cleaning up marine oil spills, it's best if you can use a material that separates the oil from the seawater. Scientists have created a new organic membrane which does exactly that, ...

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, ...

A North Carolina startup found a way to grow real leather from cow cells in a lab, a sustainable breakthrough that could cut ...

A small wheeled bot rolls across a cold lab floor, with its five legs pushing it from behind. These robots, looking unremarkable at best, have one defining factor that drives home their scientific ...

WOODVILLE ― After several changes in direction, a one-time bowling house in Woodville is now home to a growing mushroom business. “We just went from construction to production about two weeks ago,” ...