
Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Credit: Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile court cases. But the mushroom itself is only the fruit body. Beneath every cap lies the real organism: a hidden network of white threads weaving through soil and wood. And that underground network, called mycelium, may help solve

















