fungi
You Don’t Need Cows to Make Leather
A new source of wearable “vegan leather” is being harvested from the fungi kingdom.
A Wild Discovery About Fungi Just Changed Earth's Evolutionary Timeline
The finding deepens our understanding of how modern life originated on Earth and shows there’s a lot we still don’t know about our planet’s history.
Scientists Find One-Billion-Year-Old Fungus In the Canadian Arctic
The newly identified fungus is about 600 million years older than any other fungi in the fossil record.
17 Mushroom Recipes and Only One Is Psychedelic
And none of them will poison your emotionally repressed lover, unless you got really into 'Phantom Thread' and that's your thing now.
This Student Is Getting Death Threats over a Gnarly Hand Dryer Experiment
Apparently, this is what's growing in your office's bathroom dryers.
This Is the Best Way to Cook Mushrooms, According to Science
Grilled, fried, microwaved, or boiled? Researchers from the Mushroom Technological Research Center in Spain claim to have found the most nutritionally beneficial way to cook fungi.
Steve Axford Takes Spacey Photos of Beautiful Mushrooms
A few years back the retired IT specialist from northern NSW developed a love for fungi photography. Now even David Attenborough is a fan.
How Mushrooms Could Help Replenish Forests After Clearcut Logging
Mycologists on Cortes Island are making the case to end the practice of slash burning in B.C. forestry.
We Need to Pick More Mushrooms in Order to Save Them
In the San Francisco Bay Area, there are only two designated areas for wild mushroom harvesting—but one chef and forager believes that's not nearly enough.
A Killer Fungi Could Wipe Out the World’s Banana Supply
New research from the University of California, Davis predicts that three fast-evolving fungal diseases could destroy the world’s bananas in five to ten years.
This Medicine-Misting Bat Cave ‘Air Freshener’ Could Ward Off a Deadly Disease
White nose syndrome has killed an estimated 6 million bats in North America, which are an important part of our food system.
Chernobyl Microbes Are Heading to the International Space Station
Studying the effects of microgravity on these fungi may lead to new radiation therapies.