If you have frequented a farmers’ market recently (or live near a bougie grocery store), you might have seen them. They look like pale little tribbles—fluffy and soft and kind of cute—but they are ...

What can you find in the produce section of some grocery stores, the supplement aisle, in certain varieties of coffee, on the menu at your local restaurant, and maybe even on a log in your backyard?

Foods, drinks and supplements with mushrooms are being added to the market constantly. Lion's mane mushrooms, specifically, have made headlines, being called a "superfood" for the plethora of health ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Mushrooms are some of the strangest lifeforms on the planet ...