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

There's something very Alice-in-Wonderland about the research Philippe Amstislavski and his team just completed at UAA. They grew insulation -- the very thing you wrap around pipes and layer under ...

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an innovative wall tile made from mycelium, the root network of fungi. These “fungi tiles” could ...

The latest craze in revolutionary materials science is no longer some carbon nanotube, a new mysterious alloy, or biodegradeable plastic. It seems as though a lot of new developments are coming out of ...

Czech researchers have just unveiled a revolutionary new eco-home built using mushroom roots. Samorost's insulation is made from 1,800 kg of Mycocomposite, a material derived from reishi mushrooms.

Researchers from Delft University of Technology have made a breakthrough that could alter the future of quantum technology.

As our carbon revolution series continued this week, here are ten materials that store carbon including bioplastic cladding and mycelium insulation. Sequestering carbon that has been removed from the ...

Mycelium, seen here growing in a petri dish, is the root structure of mushrooms There's no doubt mushrooms are having a moment. From the popular Netflix documentary Fantastic Fungi, to the surge of ...

One of the downsides of the oil-based materials that keep us warm is that they spew a lot of carbon into the atmosphere when they are made. And those blue and pink sheets of foam insulation never die, ...

Ecovative Design is hoping to replace the world’s plastics with fungus–on everything from packaging to, yes, houses. Somewhere in Green Island, New York, there is a tiny house filled with mushroom ...