Fungal intelligence amazes again: a mushroom recognizes shapes
New frontiers of fungal intelligence: fungi demonstrate the ability to recognize shapes and adapt to their surroundings.
Mushroom-Driven Robots: Natural Biosensors in Action
Researchers are harnessing electrical signals from mushrooms as biosensors to create hybrid robots that react to their environments in novel ways.
From the Smurfs to Czechia: the mycelium mushroom house that teaches us to live green
The Czech holiday home SAMOROST, designed by Tomasz Kloza, is the first mushroom building in the world. It is made of mycelium, a sustainable material with great potential in construction.
FungalForm: mycelium air conditioning that also grows mushrooms
The innovative device awarded at the 2023 James Dyson Award uses mycelium to purify the air and cool environments.
Goodbye red meat, welcome back a healthy heart: 14 days is enough
Mycoproteins emerge as a promising alternative to red meat: new studies show improvements for the heart and reduction of cholesterol in just 14 days.
The clothes of the future? Living and self-healing
Mycelium filaments could be the key to sustainable and innovative fashion, thanks to literally living clothes, capable of repairing themselves.
'The Last of Us' is fiction. The hypothesis of a fungal epidemic, not so much
Is the parasite from 'The Last of Us' fictional? Real. But in the world the threat of fungal pathogens is increasing worldwide.
A “layered” super mushroom can replace plastic, leather and wood
A "super mushroom" contains several layers with which to make all kinds of materials: towards sustainable and "closed-loop" mass products
Mushrooms have their own language, and it is as complex as that of humans
Scientists listened to the mushroom "conversations". And they found that the signals they exchange have a structure very similar to that of human language.
Nail drives out nail: will hallucinogenic mushrooms cure addictions?
Against alcohol addictions, the remedy you do not expect: hallucinogenic mushrooms. It sounds like a joke, but a study shows that they work: however, science does not yet know how.
Shrooly, a mushroom 'printer' for growing at home
A kind of 'printer-aquarium' to grow mushrooms at home and see them grow in real time: I like it.
House insulation with mushrooms? Resistant, affordable, zero emissions
A carbon-negative, compostable, more durable and cost-effective insulation material? We already have it. Let's mass produce it. On the contrary: let's cultivate it.
Transdermal patches, the future of psilocybin: healing “magic mushrooms”.
Psilocybin, a substance contained in the famous "hallucinogenic mushrooms", is increasingly being explored as a therapeutic substance. The most popular approach seems to be a slow-release patch.
The fungal mind: evidence for fungal intelligence
Do mushrooms have intelligence and conscience? A suggestive thesis, but free from “esoteric” considerations, and increasingly explored by scholars.
Fungi as a fertilizer: they manipulate bacteria to enrich the soil
Researchers have discovered a group of soil bacteria that could produce alternatives to fertilizer to nourish the soil and improve yields.
The future is fungal: why the “megascience” of mycology is growing
A living organism that can reduce temperature and radiation, become construction material, dress us, feed us and "open our horizons": mycology studies all this, and Merlin Sheldrake is one of its apostles.
Chernobyl reactor mold tested as a shield on the ISS
The fungi found on the Chernobyl nuclear reactor continue to amaze: they are also able to absorb space radiation on the ISS. They may come in handy on the Martian colonies.
Chernobyl, fungi "eat" radiation: towards medical applications
In Chernobyl (and other contaminated areas) there are a multitude of fungi capable of growing in spite of radiation. Science tries to explain it, to find medical applications.
A team of scientists thinks we should live in mushroom houses
A speculative and provocative paper by a team of European academics explores the possibility of living in houses made of mushrooms. Living building.
Candida auris, the lethal mushroom has become resistant to all drugs
Candida Auris is becoming resistant to all drugs. Its spread must be absolutely averted by any means possible.
Modern Meadow, a journey to the origins of vegan leather jackets
Interest is growing in this challenge that crosses biology, design, fashion and respect for animals and nature.
