Maitake, aka Grifola frondosa, isn’t just a fluffy gourmet—it’s a forest-born algorithm tuning blood sugar through fractal-coded polysaccharides. Deep within its tree-dwelling genetics lie SX- and D-Fractions—compounds that can modulate...

Is your brain running on outdated firmware? 🧠🍄 Say hello to Lion’s Mane—a mushroom packed with compounds that don’t just support

Somewhere below your toes, a network older than human speech pulses with life. Trees aren’t standing still—they’re texting each other using mushrooms as messengers. Welcome to the Wood Wide Web:...

They look like sunshine on a log and taste like they were designed by a Michelin chef. But Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources

If mycelium hosted a camping retreat… it would be this.

Is the forest… conscious

What if the cure to tomorrow’s viral outbreak was written into a mushroom that’s been growing since the ’70s? Enter Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis)—the long-living shelf fungus once used to treat...

Forget capes and spandex—the real superheroes of forest restoration wear hyphae. In Scotland, scientists are mapping the underground fungal web that keeps trees alive and entire ecosystems humming. With less...

Move over, astronauts—fungi might be the real stars of space travel. In multiple out-of-this-world experiments, spores have survived freezing cold, scorching UV, and cosmic radiation without

The Mushroom That Ate Plastic—And Other Biotech Shroom Revelations Some mushrooms feed on wood. Some feed on dead bugs. This one craves plastic. Start Your SporeDive 🌌 You’ve heard of...

Every mushroom carries a microscopic entourage—spores, dust, and debris from the environment it calls home. Now, scientists are learning to read these invisible signatures like barcodes, linking a mushroom (or...

The cornfields of Missouri and Illinois are once again in fungal crosshairs. Southern rust—fast, orange, and ruthless—teams up with tar spot’s stealthy black lesions to threaten millions of bushels. Together,...