In the forest, fungus slowly spreads across logs in complex, branching networks. Mycelium (the root structure of fungi like mushrooms, which sprout from mycelium) grows by absorbing nutrients from the ...

Scientists often talk about fungi in ‘iceberg’ terms, in that what you see above the surface is a small fraction of what lies beneath. Dig into the dirt below a mushroom cup and you’re likely to find ...

If all living organisms on Earth evolved from a single cell 3.5 billion years ago, it stands to reason that they’re a lot alike. And, scientists have noted that fungi are characteristically even ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This one-bedroom, one-bathroom, single-storey house in rural Namibia looks conventional in many ways: brown rendered ...

In a world where consumers are increasingly concerned about the environment, fashion is being forced to get creative. Just as fur became a controversial material in the industry, animal leather has ...

Mushroom mycelium is a delicate network of almost microscopic threads that has almost no strength until you use it as a bio-glue to hold together a substrate, like wood chips or straw. This works in ...

A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could ...