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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Kenyan company makes building panels from mushroom roots that cost two-thirds the price of traditional materials ...

In terms of global greenhouse gas emissions, the building and construction sector is a heavyweight. According to recent estimates from the United Nations Environment Programme, this sector is ...

A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could ...