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Study suggests mushrooms can boost heart health and slash blood pressure

A new study has analyzed the effects of adding whole mushrooms into a person’s diet, either as a single shift or an entire dietary change with the goal of eating healthier. The researchers found new evidence that mushrooms could boost cardiometabolic health and even...

Dark Fungi Are All Around Us

If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went to northern Sweden to map the distribution of a particular...

Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals

Mycorrhizal fungi are responsible for holding up to 36 per cent of yearly global fossil fuel emissions below ground – more than China emits each year The fungi make up a vast underground network all over the planet underneath grasslands and forests, as well as...

Mushrooms use perspiration as a tool to stay cool

It’s not yet clear why fungi might want to stay cool. However, the discovery sheds light on a potentially fundamental aspect of fungal biology and may even have implications for human health. It is, to me, a very interesting unexplained phenomenon, said Dr. Arturo...

Mushrooms Chat About The Weather

Whether they’re hacking the brains of bugs or mining for gold, fungi are craftier than we give them credit for. Now researchers in Japan have studied how forest mushrooms communicate with each other, and found that they’re mostly chatty when it rains....

Stems vs Caps which has more mushroom magic?

A 2020 study on the Stability of psilocybin in the biomass of the psychotropic mushroom Psilocybe cubensis named “caps” the winner…. Sorta. The stipes contained approximately half the amount of tryptamine alkaloids (0.52 wt.%) than the caps (1.03...

Are humans and mushrooms related?

Recent research has shown, mushrooms are, in fact, more closely related to humans than to plants!

Sporegasm: How spores are launched from a mushroom

To spread forth and multiply, fungi — including the familiar amanita muscaria — shoot their spores into wafting breezes. A new paper published Wednesday helps explain how fungi aim the spores in the right direction. Scientists at Duke University constructed larger...

Mushroom Coffins

DUTCH STARTUP LOOP runs a factory in the city of Delft that’s unlike any other you may have visited. For one thing, as soon as you enter, the scent of mushrooms fills your nostrils like the smell of a forest after rain. If you follow your nose, you’ll arrive at a damp...