By Owen Reeder A recent study suggests that mushrooms could be used to make electronic components. Owen Noble/ Visual Editor Have you ever found yourself swamped in emails or thousands of ...

One of the biggest problems with e-waste is that it doesn't decompose, which is why these new shiitake mushroom–based ...

Scientists have found that mushrooms can act as organic memory devices, mimicking neural activity while consuming minimal power. The Ohio State team grew and trained shiitake fungi to perform like ...

The development of neuromorphic hardware provides a compelling approach for tackling the increasingly evident capacity, performance, and energy bottlenecks in classical computing. However, as ...

Fungal networks may be a promising alternative to tiny metal devices used in processing and storing digital memories and other computer data, according to a new study. Mushrooms have long been ...

They may be better known for stir-fries than supercomputing, but shiitake mushrooms have now been harnessed to function as living processors, storing and recalling data like a semiconductor chip but ...