Every day, 50,000 mattresses are tossed in the trash in the United States. A relative of penicillin could be the cure.

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 ...

Daily, thousands of used mattresses are simply thrown away around the globe. While the steel springs are easy enough to scrap ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...