Energy harvesting often appears as an attractive “something for (almost) nothing” proposition. Using wood for harvesting seems like an especially virtuous undertaking, as wood is available, ubiquitous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, scientists found a way to produce a novel material out of wood and a bioluminescent fungus. They made wood ...

Parquet power: fungus-treated wood could soon be used to create energy-generating floors. (Courtesy: Pazzo4562/CC BY-SA 4.0) Infecting wood with wood-decay fungus can boost its piezoelectric output by ...

Golden oyster edible mushrooms is invading forests across the United States, displacing native species and disrupting the ...

Through a combination of lab and field experiments, researchers have developed a better understanding of the factors accounting for different wood decomposition rates among fungi. The new findings ...

One of the most basic rules for playing the game "Twenty Questions" is that all of the questions must be definitively answered by either "yes" or "no." The exchange of information allows the players ...