Often, the word fungus doesn't have the most positive implications. At times, some fungi can indicate you have an infection that you need to pick up an ointment for. Meanwhile, certain kinds of wild ...

When people think about shiitake mushrooms, they imagine them as part of their ramen bowl or as complement for some other hot pot recipe. Few people—even the ...

The idea of a living organism replacing a silicon chip inevitably evokes science-fiction scenarios. However, a recent study reveals that fungal networks can exhibit electrical behaviors akin ...

A new paper published in PLOS One shows that mushrooms can act as the "memristors" required for many next-gen computing applications. Memristors could offer enormous speed boosts over traditional ...

Foraging for fungi may not only mean mushrooms are on the menu. New research has shown that mushroom skins could provide a biodegradable alternative to some plastics used in batteries and computer ...

The idea of combining the worlds of fungi and computers probably scares more than a few fans of The Last of Us. (And they’d probably double down on the fear when they hear about the connection between ...

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I’m not going to pretend like understand the science behind this so I am entirely unable to put this into layman’s terms. Though supposedly the mycelium skin that they use has a strong ability to keep ...