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Mushrooms to eat radiation and replace styrofoam?
Are mushrooms the new plastic? Mushrooms have been suspected of being everything from gross to holy. New research suggests mushrooms can be used to make a viable alternative to styrofoam, among myriad other uses.
In a single cubic inch of soil, there can be more than 8 miles of mycelium cells... Paul Stamets says that fungi were on earth before soil, flora, or any other organism. They have been proven to be capable of eating radiation and other toxic waste. Learn more about recent theories and developments in the links below.