Paint-splattered photographs born from a 'burning need to create'

After centuries of distrust and disdain, mushrooms are having their moment. From sci-fi smash hits to drug trials, an emerging league of mycophiles are bringing fungi out of the shadows

This compact home at the base of the Andes Mountains is a breath of fresh air

Eric Ripert at Le Bernardin is the first chef in New York City to be cooking with Nature’s Fynd, which is not seafood at all, but a protein fermented from an extremophilic fungal microbe (Fusarium strain flavolapis or “yellow stone,” nicknamed Fy) discovered by NASA-funded scientists in an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

A new retreat in the Hudson Valley from the perennially hip, Taavo Somer