It is hard to go even a few days without reading stories about how AI and other technologies are pushing the growth of massive data centers and the development of advanced computer chips. Those things ...

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 ...

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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Researchers at Ohio State University have announced a study using the mycelium of shiitake mushrooms as memory chips for computers, potentially offering a low-cost, environmentally friendly ...

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 ...

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