Could fungus be the answer to developing a food source that can thrive in space?(R)esearchers exposed two kinds of fungi – one that naturally contained melanin (Wangiella dermatitidis) and another that scientists induced to make the pigment (Crytococcus neoformans) – to levels of ionizing radiation about 500 times higher than normal, the doses one might see at high altitudes. Both species grew significantly faster, findings detailed in the May 23 issue of the journal PLoS ONE.That's right, melanin. It's the same melanin that gives human skin its pigmentation. Radiation absorbed by the melanin made it grow big and strong just like all those comic books have said. Maybe the Breatharians are onto something. Though who would want to give up eating fungi? I love mushrooms.
And the findings were published on 5/23.
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