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 ...

Oyster mushrooms and repurposed bamboo furniture scraps may be an unlikely combination for a tough building material, but engineers have used this curious mix to create a new biomimicry-inspired tile, ...

Among the many things we could do to reduce strain on the environment is find greener ways of constructing buildings. You see, cement production accounts for 8% of CO2 emissions worldwide – and a lot ...

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 ...

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 ...

The site of the former Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory in West Oakland, Calif., has sat empty for 35 years even as a housing crisis has gripped the area and led to accidents such as the Ghost Ship ...

To keep the bulky polyurethane foam material found in mattresses from the landfill, the team is using Penicillium chrysogenum ...

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NAIROBI, Kenya — 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 ...