Just when you thought mushrooms were only useful as culinary garnishes (or maybe hallucinogenics as well), Gavin McIntyre and Eben Bayer, two students from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting ...

Fungi fanatics will be fascinated to learn that scientists have developed a game-changing insulation made of mushrooms that can prevent mold growth. The Institute for Circular Economy of Bio:Polymers ...

Usually you do not want fungi in the walls of your home. But Ecovative is building a home in which having fungi in the walls is the entire point. The “Mushroom Tiny House” will use mycelium (the mass ...

In his latest look at the year's coolest inventions, Guy Raz talks to Eben Bayer about his company's breakthroughs, Greensulate insulation and Ecocradle packaging — both made from mushrooms. Bayer ...

What it is: A method for bonding insulating material using the mycelia, or roots, of mushrooms. The technique results in a product that is biodegradable and can be produced using less energy than ...

Inspired by the woods of Vermont, a US biotechnology startup have developed a system for using agricultural byproducts with fungal mycelium (a natural, self-assembling binder) to grow high performance ...

In 1944 Dow invented what they deemed as Styrofoam. A blue foamed, extruded polystyrene product they patented to serve mainly as a building insulation. More commonly, however, Styrofoam is the name ...

Just under the forest floor, a vast fungal network known as mycelium builds, communicates and occasionally produces the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms. Now scientists are using this fungus to ...