Mycelium, as it's called, is basically the root structure of mushrooms. Mycelium is unique because it's easy to both grow and shape into different forms. At Ecovative Design in Green Island ...

If you are concerned about children or pets encountering these mushrooms, simply pick them and discard. The fungi can ...

If you buy a mushroom kit, skip this step. But if you create your own medium, you need to inoculate the growing medium with ...

Mycelium also sequesters a great deal of carbon ... and one easy way to do that is simply allowing fungi to grow. That means embracing decomposition—allowing dead trees to rot instead of ...

Americans drink around 1.6 billion pounds of coffee, but most of the used coffee grounds—over 1.1 billion pounds—end up in ...

A group of creative engineers from the University of Washington recently introduced a plastic alternative that utilizes a mix of used coffee grounds and 3D-printed mycelium biocomposites to create ...

Only 30% of a coffee bean is soluble in water, and many brewing methods aim to extract significantly less than that. So of ...

UW researchers developed a new system for turning used coffee grounds into a paste, which they use to 3D print objects, such ...