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Sustainable memristors from shiitake mycelium for high-frequency bioelectronics

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144 points PaulHoule | 8 comments | 31 Oct 25 13:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom
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embedding-shape ◴[31 Oct 25 14:43 UTC] No.45772497[source]▶
> We demonstrate fungal computing via mycelial networks interfaced with electrodes, showing that fungal memristors can be grown, trained, and preserved through dehydration, retaining functionality at frequencies up to 5.85 kHz, with an accuracy of 90 ± 1%. Notably, shiitake has exhibited radiation resistance, suggesting its viability for aerospace applications

Soon we'll have shiitake replacing transistors in our airplane and spacecraft computers, while sitting and eating ramen on the vehicles themselves. The future is shaping up to be interesting.

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1. reactordev ◴[31 Oct 25 15:24 UTC] No.45773077[source]▶
So sci-fi isn’t far off after all.

War of the Worlds.

The last of us.

Battlestar Galatica.

All had some fungi/organic hook (ok, last of us is about zombies but still).

Curious if we could mux them into something faster at a higher order or something. The idea that organics can be used for electronics is so wild.

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2. gertlex ◴[31 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45773496[source]▶
Planet/mindworms in Alpha Centauri :D
3. foobarian ◴[31 Oct 25 16:15 UTC] No.45773740[source]▶
Juffo-Wup fills in my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.
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4. sholladay ◴[31 Oct 25 17:01 UTC] No.45774204[source]▶
Star Trek has a number of organic computing examples, too. Species 8472, Data, and the Borg all use varying degrees of organic components.

There's also the bio-neural gel packs on Voyager and the unnamed 31st century Earth vessel discovered by Archer and the NX-01 Enterprise.

New Trek even has a mycelial network in space.

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5. Razengan ◴[31 Oct 25 17:54 UTC] No.45774779[source]▶
They are Non, they cannot understand.
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6. tosapple ◴[31 Oct 25 19:24 UTC] No.45775732{3}[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Control_II

Downloadable as 'uqm' in debian

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7. Razengan ◴[31 Oct 25 19:58 UTC] No.45776062{4}[source]▶
….I..literally quoted another one of the Mycon's lines
8. reactordev ◴[02 Nov 25 00:51 UTC] No.45786953[source]▶
New Trek is so awful. There’s no depth to anything. Interweaving stories to make them seem important. It’s just bad TV.

The previous, it gets better the closer to TNG it is. Granted DS9 was a different beast than TNG or Voyager. Those shows had episodes, individual stories, as well as seasonal arcs. Back when shows were written for TV. New Trek feels like a bad movie script broken into episodes with side character filler.