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LARGE OBJECTS. "The first cloak worked only at a single microwave frequency. More recent cloaks work over the entire a range of optical frequencies but can only hide tiny objects over a limited viewing angle. Today...simple cloaks that hide huge objects over the entire optical spectrum, albeit with a significant compromise. One of their devices is big enough to cloak a person." (2013). https://lnkd.in/e_83SDy View in LinkedIn

FUNGAL ORGANIZERS. "Mycorrhizal networks are fundamental agents of complex adaptive systems (ecosystems) because they provide avenues for feedbacks and cross-scale interactions that lead to self-organization and emergent properties in ecosystems." https://lnkd.in/eF-_4rc View in LinkedIn

SCALABLE CLOAK. "The excitement is based on two advances. The first is the idea of “transformation optics”–the ability to bend light around a region of space to make it look as if it weren’t there. The second is the creation of metamaterials." https://lnkd.in/e_83SDy View in LinkedIn

"PLANT AND FUNGI ROOT SYMBIOSIS is an ancient and important partnership where both entities benefit from collaboration, especially relating to nitrogen fixation. Defense volatile molecules of plants have been significantly modified to permit this cross-species relationship, with cases where Jasmonic acid is actually additionally made in roots by the fungus itself." https://lnkd.in/edPEBi9 View in LinkedIn

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