When Paul E. Stamets, the proprietor of gourmet and medicinal mushroom provider Fungi Perfecti, Olympia, Wash., bought an old farmhouse in the mid-1980s, he quickly discovered a homeowner's nightmare: ...

Humans may one day be living in homes fit for gnomes. Mycelium, small strings that are part of a fungus, intertwine underground with tree roots. It's part of a network of plants that pass water and ...

A UK university is finding success in a project using mycelium to build lighter-weight structures with less negative environmental impact. Researchers say they have found great success in a study ...

What if I told you that your children might live in houses made of mushrooms? Perhaps you might think I had eaten one mushroom too many. But this is no fairy tale. Mushrooms — or more specifically, ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...