The British biologist Merlin Sheldrake, this year’s featured author for The Humanities Institute’s (THI) seventh annual Deep ...

Beginner’s guide to the wrap-your-brain-around-them facts of mycological science boosts the wonder with 3D time-lapse photography If you’ve got “face of fungi” biologist Merlin Sheldrake’s global ...

Eating rubbish and the interpenetration of life ... this entrancing study of fungi changes our view of the world “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in ...

ENTANGLED LIFE is about much more than fungi. Merlin Sheldrake's book wends its way through the most prominent features of modern mycological research, from classical symbiosis through psychoactive ...

Merlin Sheldrake has won the £25,000 Royal Society Science Book Prize for Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Bodley Head), praised by judges for its ...

When Merlin Sheldrake’s book, Entangled Life, arrived from the printers, he marked the occasion by eating a copy. Not plain – that would be insane. First, he dampened the pages, then he seeded them ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cocaine is now seen as bankers’ drug of choice, but it wasn’t always so. In 1955, a JP Morgan vice-president ...

Björk has announced that she will be narrating the forthcoming nature documentary, Fungi: The Web Of Life, which is directed by Gisela Kaufmann and Joseph Nizeti. The documentary is about "the ways ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Merlin Sheldrake, 34, received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge university for his work on underground fungal ...

The splendidly named Merlin Sheldrake is the son of the maverick biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who famously came up with the idea of 'morphic resonance'. This suggests that all living things somehow ...

There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. By Tim Flannery There is a great, third kingdom of life lying hidden at our feet – that of the fungi. So ...