The mushroom that remembers

A dried shiitake mushroom on a lab bench, copper clips on its cap and stem, wired up like a component — because it is one. Researchers at Ohio State grew and dried shiitake mycelium into a memristor, a circuit element that remembers the signals that passed through it: about 5,850 signals a second, classified with roughly 90% accuracy, then left on a shelf for two months and still working. No cleanroom. No rare earths. A mushroom, dried like food, doing a computer's job.

The computer is changing what it's made of. Some of the new material is lunch.

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