Every time a building is built or demolished, dumpsters full of construction waste head to landfills—and each year in the U.S., the construction and demolition industry generates around twice as much ...

Nick Beckage, a graduate researcher, Davin Louangaphay, a research assistant, and Philippe Amstislavski, a professor of health sciences, stand among spruce trees on the University of Alaska Anchorage ...

Dublin, Nov. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "The Global Bio-based Insulation Market 2026-2036" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Biobased Insulation Market ...

Swinburne researchers have turned old, unwanted mattresses into safe and sustainable building insulation materials using fungi. The team grew a common fungus together with shredded mattress foam to ...

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed an innovative wall tile made from mycelium, the root network of fungi. These “fungi tiles” could ...

Somewhere in Green Island, New York, there is a tiny house filled with mushroom insulation. No one lives in it; the team at Ecovative Design–a company that makes mycelium-based bioplastics–is using ...

The latest craze in revolutionary materials science is no longer some carbon nanotube, a new mysterious alloy, or biodegradeable plastic. It seems as though a lot of new developments are coming out of ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS When mushrooms make the news, ...

One of the downsides of the oil-based materials that keep us warm is that they spew a lot of carbon into the atmosphere when they are made. And those blue and pink sheets of foam insulation never die, ...