Often hidden from view, fungi are 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, ...

What if mushrooms became the building blocks of the future? Powered by mycelium—the vast underground network that forms the ...

In a breakthrough that could revolutionize the face mask industry, researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a method to create sustainable face masks using mycelium, the root ...

Scientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, publishing April 16 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science ...

Somewhere between a botanical garden and a tree walk at the University of British Columbia, there is a cedar-clad timber ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

Mycelium has a long history in food, but its potential for today’s consumer packaged foods (CPG) industry highlights the need for increased R&D in resourceful and responsible food production that ...

Unsplash Beneath every forest floor, every grassland, and every garden bed, there is a world that most of us have never seen.

Fungi are vital to natural ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material and cycling it back into the environment as nutrients. But new research from the University of Utah finds one species, ...

Learn more about some of the amazing features of fungi, including being the largest organism in the world and improving medical treatments. With an estimated five million species found around the ...