The UK’s PLP Architects is focused on creating a greener future by collaborating with nature, developing a fungus-based modular block that is renewable and biodegradable, and has the potential to ...

MycoTile grows mushroom roots to make affordable, eco-friendly panels. Fungi-based materials could help ease Nairobi’s housing shortage. Mycelium panels cost about one-third less than traditional ...

Oyster mushrooms and repurposed bamboo furniture scraps may be an unlikely combination for a tough building material, but engineers have used this curious mix to create a new biomimicry-inspired tile, ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results, publishing April 16 in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science ...

Mushrooms are popping up everywhere in design. Not only are they suddenly popular print designs for clothing, but artists and engineers are inspired by mushrooms’ building material, mycelium. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers compare the biomineralized mycelium scaffold (lower right) with other living materials built from hydrogels and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Christopher Maurer holds up a brick-like object and raps on it with his knuckles. The object sounds like a ceramic block, but it’s not made from clay or earth. Rather, it’s composed ...

Six years ago, when a fire broke out in a London high-rise and burned for 60 hours, killing dozens of people, the cladding on the outside walls was part of the problem. The panels, filled with a ...

Fed on straw, sawdust, cardboard, and leftover coffee grounds, root-like mycelium networks knit scraps into lightweight foams, boards, and fabrics that are beginning to challenge traditional plastics, ...

Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are now one step closer to eventually making it a reality, according to a new study.Related ...