Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

Paul Stamets, celebrated mycologist and founder of Fungi Perfecti, LLC, makers of Host Defense® Mushrooms™, is spearheading ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae - that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...