Researchers in a laboratory in Montana have been growing a new kind of building material. It’s not forged in a furnace or cast in molds, but carefully cultivated like a living organism. The ...

Mycelium is everywhere – in leaf litter, compost piles, mulch, crops after harvest, and even in the dead wood under our feet.

It looks like leather and it feels like leather. Soon, Mylo, the animal-free hide engineered from the branching root network that sprouts mushrooms, may even become as widely available as leather.

Ecovative is on a mission to democratize mycelium. From licensing its intellectual property to Bolt Threads—a competing mycelium textile company—in 2018 to its Mycelium Foundry, the materials science ...

Scientists at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are experimenting with fungal mycelium to help support life on the Moon and Mars. Last week, NASA rolled out a concept it calls ...