forest floor

Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses in mushrooms. Researchers have created biohybrid robots using an unexpected component, not from the laboratory, but from the forest floor: fungal mycelium.

Canopy plants such as orchids and ferns have an outsized role in moving water through tropical forests. They suck up cloud moisture and slowly drip it down to the forest floor. Yet, with climate change, these delicate plants are drying up, threatening to alter the vital rainforest water cycle.