Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

What happens when fungi are fed our waste? Mycelium materials grow into foams, panels, and fabrics that point toward a more circular approach to making things. Read this article for more info.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...