In August 2024, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia sent 36 small vials containing fungi into ...

An Australian woman has become the first person in the nation to be buried inside a coffin grown from mushrooms and hemp.

One night. The Mycelium Squad's VR Literature Laboratory was filled with a mist of spores, creating an atmosphere where "you could catch literary pneumonia just by breathing." Natsume Soseki's "Ten ...

Carolyn, a woman in her 70s, was put to rest on 4 September in a futuristic casket made from mycelium - the underground root ...

Ottawa, Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global mycelium market size stood at USD 2.93 billion in 2024 and is predicted to increase from USD 3.11 billion in 2025 to USD 5.35 billion by 2034, ...

In many parts of the world, days after a good rainfall, it’s fairly common to see various species of mushrooms popping up out of the ground. These mysterious organisms aren’t the whole story, though.

RMIT researchers have crafted a wildfire jacket prototype from mycelium leather, testing whether fungi‑based materials could ...

UNION, S.C., Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MycoWorks, the pioneering biomaterials company, announced today an advancement of its proprietary Fine Mycelium™ process, enabling the creation of their ...

Fungi have more to offer than meets the eye. Their thread-like cells, which grow extensively and out of sight underground like a network of roots, offer huge potential for producing sustainable, ...

The future has arrived: We have mushroom leather hats now. Slowly but surely, leather alternatives made from mycelium—essentially the root structure of a mushroom—instead of animal hides have entered ...

DUTCH STARTUP LOOP runs a factory in the city of Delft that’s unlike any other you may have visited. For one thing, as soon as you enter, the scent of mushrooms fills your nostrils like the smell of a ...

Oyster mushrooms and repurposed bamboo furniture scraps may be an unlikely combination for a tough building material, but engineers have used this curious mix to create a new biomimicry-inspired tile, ...