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Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
It’s mushroom season in many parts of Australia. Here’s what you need to know before you go foraging.
Slime moulds feature throughout HBO’s The Last of Us. While they aren’t a true fungus, they do have a lot in common with zombies.
Plath’s sublime nature poetry deserves widespread appreciation for its unfettered joy and deep attunement to the natural world.
A new study looked at the many claims made about soil fungi and found some misconceptions.
When Melbourne had to isolate during COVID lockdowns, Greg Moore and his family discovered the pleasure of a very fine fungi-spotting season.
Fungi underpin life on Earth, but are far less well catalogued and understood than animals and plants. Three scientists call for including fungi in conservation strategies and environmental laws.
New research has found what may be language in electrical impulses transmitted between mushrooms.
Plant the right trees in the right places – with the right fungal companions.
Fungi come in a beautiful diversity of shapes, sizes and colours. See stunning photos of those growing in southwest Australia.
Inoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting, storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
As a laureate professor in nutrition and dietetics, people often ask me what I eat. Here are four plant-based foods I have on my weekly grocery list.
Poison can be a deadly defense that helps a mushroom make sure its spores are spread to new places to grow into baby mushrooms.
Forgot tempeh. The humble shroom has the potential to be used across industries, in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
Using tiny ‘soil chips’, researchers have observed the forgaging strategies of fungi at a microscopic scale for the first time.
Going from a single spore to a finished fungi-derived leather product takes a couple of weeks. But raising a cow to maturity for bovine leather can take several years.
A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
There is no solution to the unethical, unsustainable fashion industry – yet
Before being qualified as “magic”, certain mushrooms were considered sacred by the ancient peoples of Mexico. We explore their history and relationship to Mesoamerican religion and medicine.
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Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral researcher, Universität Wien
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Australian National University
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Adjunct Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care, University of Victoria
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Lecturer in Environmental, Forest and Wood Sciences, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Mycology and Plant Pathology, West Virginia University
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Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate in Fungal Ecology, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Chemistry, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Art and Design, Edinburgh Napier University
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Researcher, Lund University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry