{"id":890227,"date":"2026-02-05T03:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/fungi-help-turn-old-mattresses-into-insulation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:14:55","slug":"fungi-help-turn-old-mattresses-into-insulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/fungi-help-turn-old-mattresses-into-insulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungi help turn old mattresses into insulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Every day, 50,000 mattresses are tossed in the trash in the United States. A relative of penicillin could be the cure.<br \/>\nThe post Fungi help turn old mattresses into insulation appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/fungi-mattress-insulation\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Andrew Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Every day, 50,000 mattresses are tossed in the trash in the United States. A relative of penicillin could be the cure. The post Fungi help turn old mattresses into insulation appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;Read MoreAndrew Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27334,38312,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fungi","category-mattresses","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}