What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, ...

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 ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

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A popular mushroom species can be trained to remember past electrical states, allowing it to act as both a memory device and data processor known as an organic memristor. Scaling performance may be a ...