Hacker News with Generative AI: Fungi

Mushroom Color Atlas (mushroomcoloratlas.com)
Explore the chromatic universe of fungi through the spectrum of colors naturally produced by dye mushrooms.
Mushrooms, Fungi, Color, Art, Science
339 points by gaws 26 days ago | 30 comments
Fungi may not think, but they can communicate (arstechnica.com)
Fungi may not think, but they can communicate
Fungi, Biology, Communication
5 points by rntn 31 days ago | 0 comments
Foxfire (wikipedia.org)
Foxfire, also called fairy fire and chimpanzee fire,[1] is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood.
Bioluminescence, Fungi, Biology, Nature, Decaying Wood
4 points by reaperducer 36 days ago | 0 comments
Do Fungi Recognize Shapes? (tohoku.ac.jp)
Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this question in mind when conducting a study to measure the decision-making processes in fungi. While it may sound like science fiction, this level of basal cognition is possible even in fungi.
Science, Fungi, Cognition, Intelligence
84 points by svilches 47 days ago | 29 comments
Metabolic engineering of yeast for the production of psilocybin (sciencedirect.com)
Psilocybin is a tryptamine-derived psychoactive alkaloid found mainly in the fungal genus Psilocybe, among others, and is the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms”.
Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology, Psychedelic Drugs, Fungi, Chemistry
10 points by confused_boner 49 days ago | 3 comments
Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction (arstechnica.com)
Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.
Ants, Fungi, Evolution, Mass Extinction, Science
221 points by LinuxBender 61 days ago | 63 comments
P. boydii – Deadly fungus lacking antimycotic treatment (wikipedia.org)
Medicine, Fungi, Disease
6 points by hi-v-rocknroll 99 days ago | 0 comments
Radiotrophic fungus (wikipedia.org)
Biology, Fungi, Radiation
9 points by tarcar 129 days ago | 1 comments
Out of sight, 'dark fungi' run the world from the shadows (scientificamerican.com)
Fungi, Biology, Science, Ecology
180 points by Jimmc414 160 days ago | 67 comments