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From flexible circuit boards that melt into soil, to helping cancer patients tackle depression, fungi's strange abilites are being leveraged in new innovations.
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, Germany, the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, Austria, and the University of Colorado (CU Boulder), Boulder, USA, have brought sustainability to the forefront of soft robotics.
Scientists in Germany, Austria and the U.S. say their biodegradable artificial muscles could improve the field of soft robotics.
A team of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has found that the skin of a certain kind of mushroom can be used as a biodegradable base for computer chips.