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Materials researchers have developed a new, sustainable material from fungus and plant remains. It can replace many conventional materials.
It's a process engineer's dream: you put a bowl in a dark room in warm summer temperatures and five to six days later it's full to the brim. The natural material inside has grown into the given shape by itself. It's a mushroom - it reaches every corner, nestles close to the edge of the bowl. Time for harvest: form and contents go into an oven where they are heated at 70
