Philadelphia isn’t just slinging cheesesteaks anymore—it’s slinging spores. With mushroom food and beverage sales up 450% since 2021, functional fungi are taking over the city’s plates, drinks, and snacks. From...

Buckle up, Myco-Wanderer. We’re diving into the frost-coded fungal genetics of Enoki—yes, that long, noodle-like mushroom in your ramen. But don’t let its skinny frame fool you. Beneath that ghost-white...

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...

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...

Cordyceps is not your chill adaptogen. It’s a mind-controlling fungal parasite with a flair for drama—and potentially, a future in off-world colonization. This real-life zombie fungus hijacks insect brains, erupts...

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,...

Is the forest… conscious

What if your immune system had a fungal co-pilot? 🍄 The shiitake mushroom, beloved in stir-fry, might also be whispering genetic upgrades through a compound called lentinan—tweaking T-cells and flipping...

You’ve seen the zombie ant memes. Now meet the real Cordyceps militaris—the fungus that doesn’t just possess its prey but reprograms their genetic destiny

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

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

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...