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, ...

Mycelium is everywhere – in leaf litter, compost piles, mulch, crops after harvest, and even in the dead wood under our feet.

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 ...

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 ...

A future where sustainable and self-repairing homes are built with engineered living materials (ELMs) got a little closer to being realized thanks to a promising new study. CNN reported that ...

The vertically integrated denim manufacturer has partnered with New York-based Ecovative, a leader in mycelium technology, to transform post-consumer waste denim into sustainable architectural and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Humans may one day be living in homes fit for gnomes. Mycelium, small strings that are part of a fungus, ...

Armando Cañas, head of construction at Redhouse Studio, holds up a brick of building material made from mushrooms. Credit: Mark Oprea It costs roughly $10,000 to send a can of Coke into orbit. About ...

The site of the former Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory in West Oakland, Calif., has sat empty for 35 years even as a housing crisis has gripped the area and led to accidents such as the Ghost Ship ...

It was just this week that we heard how a fungus-based material could be used as fireproof insulation. Well, scientists have now created a similar material, known as mycocrete, that could one day be ...

Imagine a world where homes, clothing, and electronics are grown instead of manufactured. Mycelium, the root structure of ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This one-bedroom, one-bathroom, single-storey house in rural Namibia looks conventional in many ways: brown rendered ...