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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have created an innovative, environmentally friendly substance known as "mycelium-based composites (MBCs)." These MBCs are gaining recognition for their distinctive qualities, making them a ...

To create a bio-based building material, researchers from Newcastle University crafted a new “mycocrete” composite onto knitted molds. Using mycelium combined with additional natural materials, the ...

A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could ...