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Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materials

  • Written by Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materialsWhite button mushrooms are one of the types studied to inform stronger materials. DigiPub/Moment via Getty Images

Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the same microscopic building...

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