It's more like a giant fungus. It's the design of a biotech company that uses mushrooms to make eco-friendly packing materials, leather, and even bacon. Mycelium, as it's called, is basically the ...

It's based on mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus. PLP Labs, a design research collaborative of the London-based PLP ...

The experimental design meant they could assess ... This suggests the fungi could share information across its entire ...

Mycelium also sequesters a great deal of carbon, which keeps climate-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (some fungi can store 70 percent more carbon in the soil!). Furthermore ...

Monc has developed its own sustainable mycelium packaging made from 'magical' mushrooms. Monc's new packaging harnesses the potential of agricultural waste and fungi, one of the world's oldest ...

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 ...

“Mycelium is comparable to the root structure of plants, although fungi are actually not plants,” Dr Loes van Dam, researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, told Euronews Nex ...

One new approach from researchers at the Johannes Kepler University in Austria is to replace the substrate in electronics with a material made from mycelium skins. Maintaining performance of ICs ...

The hub of mushroom action (more specifically, mycelium action, mycelium being the plant ... titled 6° – a curious blend of art, music, design and the power of fungi in the creative industries. 6°, ...

Now, she freelances from San Antonio, Texas. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Mycelium is the fabric of fungal populations: fungi produce thread-like roots called hyphae, which ...

reinforcing fibre-based formwork for growing a chair with mycelium, the root network of fungi. Mycelium growth binds the organic filling material together, resulting in a stiff self-supporting ...