Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. IN THE OLD-GROWTH forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, ...

Monsanto has a new enemy… fungi. Mycologist Paul Stamets holds a patent for insect-killing fungi – or mycopesticides – that could disrupt the pesticide industry and “help save the world.” According to ...

Once you’ve heard “renaissance mycologist” Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you’ll never look at the world — not to mention your backyard — in the same way again. The author of two seminal textbooks ...

On Star Trek: Discovery, the character Lieutenant Paul Stamets is an "astromycologist" — a mushroom expert in outer space who is passionate about the power of fungi. Stamets is actually named after a ...