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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
imageWhite 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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