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Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and public consciousness compared to plants and animals. That may change in the future though, as a group of researchers at The Ohio State University have found a way to use fungi as organic memristors — hinting at a possible future where fungal networks help power our computing devices.

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[–] FunctionallyLiterate@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I had no idea the origin of Star Trek: Voyager's bio-neural gel-packs went back this far!