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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Insulation is key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It's important to insulate well in order to reduce the amount of energy you use. The fiberglass traditionally used in ...

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 ...

Mushrooms, as any cook knows, are versatile: they enhance soups, stews, pasta, salads and omelettes, and they can be stuffed, baked, fried or sautéed. As it turns out, they are equally versatile ...

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 ...