The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

It’s also hard to convince the general public, who are used to concrete and brick, that we are building reliably with mushrooms.

Could mushrooms be the answer ... Once finished, the bricks can withstand twice the pressure as regular concrete. When he’s not building mushroom houses in Namibia or Cleveland, Chris is ...

Mushrooms are getting attention in other sectors, too. In the U.K., a Newcastle University team is working on a fungus-based ...