The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

You may have noticed that mushrooms pop up in your yard or in parks right after a rain but don’t last for long. A mushroom is the above-ground part of a fungus. Most of the time, fungi live as ...

Floating above your head, invisible to the eye, are billions of fungi spores drifting around on the wind. In fact, it’s estimated that at any one time, there are probably millions of tons of them ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A KGW viewer recently left a message asking about a Portland store that appeared to be selling spores for growing mushrooms that contain the psychoactive substance psilocybin, ...

Researchers developed a new system for turning used coffee grounds into a paste, which they use to 3D print objects, such as packing materials and a vase. They inoculate the paste with Reishi mushroom ...

Pictured is the "Texas Star" mushroom, found at Inks Lake State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife. (Inks Lake State Park - Texas Parks and Wildlife) BURNET, Texas – If you’ve seen HBO’s “The Last of Us, ...

If you’re still lukewarm on the idea of parachuting in a bunch of beavers to California to end the drought, here’s another option: mushrooms. In forests across the world, Earth’s decomposers are ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...