Radiation-Eating Fungi Could Change The Energy Balance On Earth And Beyond
via Space News From SpaceDaily.Com on May 23, 2007
New York NY (SPX) May 23, 2007 - Scientists have long assumed that fungi exist mainly to decompose matter into chemicals that other organisms can then use. But researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found evidence that fungi possess a previously undiscovered talent with profound implications: the ability to use radioactivity as an energy source for making food and spurring their growth.
