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2013 SCALABLE CLOAK. "Researchers demonstrate an invisibility cloak that can be scaled to almost any size and say it could be used to hide orbiting satellites." https://lnkd.in/e_83SDy View in LinkedIn

MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSIS. "Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbioses can be formed with a very wide range of plant species, as many as 250,000. Only 150–200 species of AM fungi have so far been distinguished on the basis of morphology, but DNA-based studies suggest the true diversity of these symbionts may be very much higher." https://lnkd.in/eYJPZfp View in LinkedIn

"A SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGH in carpet cloak design happened in 2012. Up to that time, all experiments had resulted in reaching only partial invisibility. Landy and Smith developed a two-dimensional cloak that allowed them to achieve almost full invisibility of a cylindrical object for the microwave frequency band." (2012). https://lnkd.in/enxaHbT View in LinkedIn

SYMBIOSIS RULES. "80 and 92% of surveyed land plant species and families are mycorrhizal." https://lnkd.in/euyjyGV View in LinkedIn

MAJOR STEP. "The approach can be scaled down further in size, the new technology is a major step towards a cloak that would work for visible light." (2009). https://lnkd.in/eEQGSaw View in LinkedIn

GIANT HYBRID CITIES. "Quick, which is the biggest symbiotic association on Earth? Did you guess the mycorrhizae? They are the huge symbioses between fungi and the roots of most terrestrial plants....the mass of mycorrhizal fungi on the planet is estimated to be somewhere around 1-3 x 10(10) tons (that’s between 1.4 and 4 tons per person)." https://lnkd.in/e4xrzsX View in LinkedIn

NEW VIEW. "More and more, symbiosis appears to be the ‘rule,’ not the exception." https://lnkd.in/ejR8YC4 View in LinkedIn

A LOVELY VIDEO of the relationship between plant roots and soil fungi. https://lnkd.in/eAq5Die View in LinkedIn

NINE PERCENT. "Our knowledge of fungi is far exceeded by our ignorance. To date, we’ve identified approximately 14,000 of the 150,000 species of mushroom-forming fungi estimated to exist, which means that more than 90 percent have not yet been identified." And that is the blind man simply counting noses. https://lnkd.in/eZ8w9KH View in LinkedIn

DIVERSITY. "There can be 10,000 to 50,000 species in less than a teaspoon of soil. In that same teaspoon of soil there are more microbes than there are people on earth. In a handful of healthy soil, there is more biodiversity in just the bacterial community than you will find in all the animals of the Amazon basin." https://lnkd.in/eyzuPzu View in LinkedIn