An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

The tube-like structures at the bottom of the image are the fungus’s hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of the fungus. The light blue ovals are the spores that the fungus ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Mycelium is the fabric of fungal populations: fungi produce thread-like roots called hyphae, which branch and fuse with one another to form a ...

The secret life of fungi unfolds underground where hyphae form spindly threads of mycelium that stretch out like vast ...

In short, fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

Mycelium, the root part of the fungus family, is used for all sorts of things from building materials to surfboards. It is also used to make clothing including a vegan leather alternative.

Pentagram’s Jody Hudson-Powell and Luke Powell have designed a digital tool based on mushroom growth simulation algorithms, which lets users ‘grow’ fungi-esque ... reminiscent of the hyphae filaments ...