Star Trek: Discovery's spore drive may be a work of science-fiction, but the name of Anthony Rapp's character reveals more thought has gone into the bizarre form of propulsion than it seems. Rapp's ...

In Star Trek: Discovery, astromycologist Lieutenant Paul Stamets, the resident expert on space mushrooms, reveals that the entire Star Trek universe revolves around an unexpected life form: spores. In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. The spore drive and its navigation capabilities are refined throughout ...

It’s an almost-too-warm California spring morning at Lightning in a Bottle, one of the preeminent music festivals for eco-conscious, EDM-loving millennials. You’re under shade, mercifully, chatting in ...

It was during the Muddest of time loops in Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad that we learnt about Stamets' first encounter with his future husband at a café on Alpha Centauri. Burnham hit the ...

Once you’ve heard “renaissance mycologist” Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you’ll never look at the world — not to mention your backyard — in the same way again. The author of two seminal textbooks ...