To reduce electronic waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions from plastic, future computer chips might use a substrate made of mushrooms. This isn’t something out of the Mario Bros. movie, either. That ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where the metallic innards of our computers are replaced by organic materials. Recent research has shown that this could be a reality, with mushrooms serving as an alternative to metal ...