This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Humans have been harnessing the power of ...

In a world where fire threatens more and more homes, scientists have developed a surprising type of material that might keep some buildings safer: wafer-thin sheets of fungi. Underneath every mushroom ...

Fungal hyphae play a greater role in the spread of bacteria in the soil than was previously suspected. This is the finding reported by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research ...

Cornell scientists recently helped to build and study a new kind of robot - machines controlled using an edible mushroom one might expect to find attached to a tree in the forest, or on a plate in a ...

Mushrooms might be the most contested pizza topping after pineapple, but can you build a boat from pineapples? Probably not, but you can from mushrooms. Mushrooms, or rather their mycelium root ...