Imagine a world where the metallic innards of our computers are replaced by organic materials. Recent research has shown that this could be a reality, with mushrooms serving as an alternative to metal ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at Ohio State University have developed memristors—typically used in non-volatile data storage—made from common mushrooms. Although not as ...

Researchers at Duke University previously proposed the idea of 'Brainets'. These are brain networks which are formed by multiple animal brains exchanging information in real-time via brain-to-brain ...

Credit: Wikipedia Some of us may swear our computers have a personality, but we know they’re not really alive. But a future generation of computing devices may, in fact, have organic components. The ...

We invariably imagine electronic devices to be made from silicon chips, with which computers store and process information as binary digits (zeros and ones) represented by tiny electrical charges. But ...

The advent of faster computers, the ability to tap into unlimited numbers of those computers via the Internet, and more sophisticated data analysis software have led to improved high-throughput ...