They’ve been around far longer than human beings, and they’ll be here long after we’re gone. Jordan Jent knows this deep in his bones — he deeply respects the kingdom of fungi. He’s fully aware that ...

There have been many pictures this summer on Facebook of mushrooms. One gent hiked through Snowy Range and posted several he photographed. The subsequent comments on his post were both scientific and ...

At the New York Fungus Festival, mycophiles gathered to drink mushroom ale, sniff soil-scented perfume and, of course, admire some fungi. Mushrooms are having quite a moment — especially this ...

Inside the historic Printers Building in downtown Worcester, hundreds of edible mushrooms are proliferating in a former storage room. Oyster, shiitake and lion’s mane species grow out of sawdust ...

Fungus may be capable of complex communication. Yes, your mushrooms could speak to one another in a language of their own. A computer scientist compared electrical signals in mushrooms to human ...

In the early 1990s, the Central Cascades of Oregon saw a feverish moment of fortune-seeking, reminiscent of the Klondike a century earlier. Hordes of itinerant prospectors descended on the small ...

After the button mushroom, the shiitake mushroom is the most commonly cultivated mushroom in the world, according to Cornell University. The practice of growing shiitake mushrooms intentionally on ...

There have been many pictures this summer on Facebook of mushrooms. One gent hiked through Snowy Range and posted several he photographed. The subsequent comments on his post were both scientific and ...