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Moon 'shrooms? Fungi eyed to help build lunar bases and Mars outposts
NASA researchers are investigating the potential of mycelia — the mass of nutrient-absorbing, widely branching underground threads that make up much of a fungus's bulk — to help construct outposts on the moon and Mars.
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NASA wants to grow a Moon base out of mushrooms
"Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle — carrying our homes with us on our backs — a reliable plan, but with huge energy costs."
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The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus
Forget blue whales and giant redwood trees. The biggest living organism is over 2 miles across, and you'll hardly ever see it
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You Should Know About This Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation
Scientists have discovered that a longtime fungal resident of the Chernobyl complex could actually “eat” radiation. In an upcoming paper, scientists will share the results of growing the fungus on the International Space Station. Scientists have known about this fungus, and similar extremophile organisms that can thrive on radiation, since at least 2007. The variety found in Chernobyl “can decompose radioactive material such as the hot graphite in the remains of the Chernobyl reactor,” Nature said in 2007.
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The Secret Lives of Fungi
They shape the world—and offer lessons for how to live in it.
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There is so much we don't yet know about fungi
Fungi are perhaps the most enigmatic organisms on the planet. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake says we are only just beginning to discover how they work
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A Man Injected Magic Mushroom 'Tea' Into His Veins, And Fungus Grew Inside Him
A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.
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Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world
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B.C. non-profit challenges Health Canada to end 50-year prohibition on magic mushrooms | CBC News
TheraPsil has sent a 165-page proposal to Health Canada outlining regulations for so-called magic mushrooms based on the same ones the federal government first created 20 years ago for medicinal cannabis.
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Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 ‘words’, scientist claims
Buried in forest litter or sprouting from trees, fungi might give the impression of being silent and relatively self-contained organisms, but a new study suggests they may be champignon communicators. Mathematical analysis of the electrical signals fungi seemingly send to one another has identified patterns that bear a striking structural similarity to human speech.
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Ethereal New Plant Species Doesn't Use Photosynthesis - It's Found Something Sneakier
Cloaked by the shadows of enchanting Asian woodlands, strange growths can be seen peeking out from between leaf litter like the ghosts of long-dead flowers.
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Instead of Building Structures on Mars, we Could Grow Them With the Help of Bacteria
Since the 1990s, several architectures have been drafted for crewed missions to Mars, all of which have emphasized the need for keeping launch mass low. Suggestions for how this could be accomplished include inflatable modules. But as Dr. Jin emphasized in her proposal, the physical structures used to outfit the inflatable modules cannot be carried by a crewed spacecraft and generally require a second vehicle to launch them. This is a logistical challenge for missions and drastically increases launch costs.
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Does a Vast Network of Fungi Connect Forests? Here's What We Know.
The possibility that communication networks of fungi exist connecting forest ecosystems in a 'wood-wide web' has increasingly gained attention among researchers in recent decades.
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