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Growing food and power on the same land: California researchers test agrivoltaics
Growing food and power on the same land: California researchers test agrivoltaics Article

Growing food and power on the same land: California researchers test agrivoltaics

As California farmers face worsening drought, extreme heat and rising costs, the state is racing to expand solar energy infrastructure. But both agricultural production and solar harvesting depend on one increasingly scarce resource: land. Researchers at UC Davis are looking at whether combining farming and solar energy could help farmers adapt.
Morris Beegle
August 26, 2026
These 19 Mushrooms Are Wild, Weird, and Seriously Delicious
These 19 Mushrooms Are Wild, Weird, and Seriously Delicious Article

These 19 Mushrooms Are Wild, Weird, and Seriously Delicious

Is there anything cooler in the culinary world than the mushroom? For starters, they’re blissfully weird: Some can have 23,000 sexes. Some glow-in-the-dark. Some can kill you. But more importantly for us cooks, so many mushrooms are just damn delicious. “The fun thing about mushrooms and fungi is that they’re always kind of upending our assumptions about things,” says Maya Han, culture representative…
Morris Beegle
August 25, 2026
US Cannabis at a Crossroads
US Cannabis at a Crossroads Article

US Cannabis at a Crossroads

A review of Section 781’s rewrite of the federal hemp definition, the competing legislative responses (the Lawful Hemp Protection Act, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, Representative Mace’s repeal bill, and Senator Wyden’s Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act), the CMS pilot expanding Medicare access to CBD products, and the separate marijuana rescheduling process now underway. Taken individually, each has a…
Morris Beegle
August 24, 2026
From surfboards to aquariums, mushroom foam enters a sterner test for home use
From surfboards to aquariums, mushroom foam enters a sterner test for home use Article

From surfboards to aquariums, mushroom foam enters a sterner test for home use

While mycelium has already been shaped into surfboards, the fungus-based material is now being tested in a more delicate setting: aquariums, where durability and material safety matter just as much as appearance. The development is drawing interest because it hints at a future in which some of the foam products people bring into their homes could be grown instead of made…
Morris Beegle
August 18, 2026
We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles
We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles Article

We May Finally Know Why Mysterious Mushroom Fairy Rings Grow in Circles

If you're ever in a patch of woods or meadow at just the right time of year, you may stumble across something that seems like an act of otherworldly trickery. In the right circumstances, you might encounter an almost perfect ring of mushrooms, arrayed almost as though halted in a circle dance. For centuries, these so-called fairy rings have inspired myth…
Morris Beegle
August 15, 2026
Pa.’s attorney general is backing a hemp product ban. The industry says it goes way too far
Pa.’s attorney general is backing a hemp product ban. The industry says it goes way too far Article

Pa.’s attorney general is backing a hemp product ban. The industry says it goes way too far

Pennsylvania’s chief law enforcement officer is urging congressional leaders to allow an impending overhaul of how the country treats hemp-derived products to go into effect in three months. Republican Dave Sunday joined more than 30 state attorneys general in a letter arguing the merits of the crackdown, saying it would clarify for police the legal status of certain “intoxicating products”…
Morris Beegle
August 13, 2026