Mycelium

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Whole-food, meatless, Mexican mushroom maestros El Hongo Magico return to the next Monday Night Foodball at Frank and Mary's Tavern

Stop for a moment and pay attention to the things around you. The clothes you're wearing, the device you're using, what you're sitting on, the building you're in. What are they ...

Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the underground fungal network that can...

Lion's mane mushrooms have grown in popularity, but can they really benefit your health? Read on to learn who should take them.

Lab-produced meat may be one of the weirder sectors for startup innovation, but in terms of funding and hype trajectory, it's about as typical as it gets. Like most startup sectors, the space isn't attracting investors like it used to. We take a look.

In Illinois, Mycocycle, a nature-inspired, woman-owned biotechnology company that uses fungi to transform organic waste into reusable materials, announced an oversubscribed $3.6 million Seed extension. Closed Loop Partners' Ventures Group led the round with follow-on investment from the TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good and participation from U.S. Venture, Inc. and the Illinois Department of Commerce […]

Announcing the winners of our first cli-fi drabble contest.

As wildfires grow in size and severity, researchers are learning more about the burn scar pioneers that are foundational to ecosystem recovery.

The Sundance Institute and Cinépolis have announced their program for the inaugural edition of the Sundance Film Festival CDMX 2024.

Scientists have found a "tipping point" in the evolution of fungi that throttles their growth and sculpts their shapes. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, demonstrate how small changes in environmental factors can lead to huge changes in evolutionary outcomes.

A longstanding love of cooking unlocked MIT senior Branden Spitzer's interest in materials science and engineering. He's worked on a number of projects related to food and sustainability, from extending the shelf-life of produce to developing lab-grown meat.

Late-game fiddliness spoils what is otherwise a vibrant and always interesting Metroidvania, and one of the most sumptu…

"The fungus swiftly colonizes and liquefies the caterpillar's delicate innards via powerful enzymes that pervade the creature's entire body cavity, effectively consuming the caterpillar from the inside out."

In New York, the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing announced the third cohort of its Sustainable Solutions Collaborative, an initiative launched in 2020 that provides $250,000 grants to innovators addressing complex global sustainability issues. The cohort includes two biobased companies: EarthEnable, a nonprofit headquartered in Rwanda that designs and builds affordable housing products made […]

My late Uncle Pepe was an avid mushroom hunter, rising early on late-summer Saturdays, field guide in hand, to head to a local New York City park for his weekly forage. Upon his return, my Aunt Jenny would meticulously wash the hen-of-the-woods, turkey tail or other fungi free of soil

Nature has its own horrors to rival the classic legendary ghouls and monsters of fiction.

Tyler Huggins, CEO and cofounder of the animal-free protein company Meati explains the inspiration for his products

Thin sheets of compressed fungi have excellent fire-resistant properties and could be used as a non-toxic, biodegradable alternative to current fireproofing

In Spain and the UK, researchers at Polytechnic University of Valencia and University of the West of England have developed a fungi-based coating that could be a multifunctional sensor for electronics. They also demonstrated the potential of the material to act as living, cybernetic "skin" by making a Terminator-style robot mockup. "There's this scene in […]