Mycelium materials can grow from agricultural and food waste, forming foams, panels, and textiles that challenge plastics in packaging and construction.

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 ...

As the fashion world looks for alternatives to plastic and leather, mycelium is rising to the top of the material supply chain. Derived from fungi, including mushrooms, mycelium is actually the ...

(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 ...