James Webb Space Telescope

Life finds a way.


They found a fungus in Chernobyl growing near the reactors where the radiation levels were suspected to prevent anything to live there.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/02/11/chernobyl-fungus/?edg-c=1
I was all excited when I say "eats radiation". What they really mean is it passivley absorbs radiation and converts it to energy. That could be useful of course. However I was hoping for something that activley accellerated the decay of radioactive isotopes and left non-hazardous metal. That would make nuclear power more pallitable for many.

It would be right up there with a plastic/microplastic solution.


Not a solution, but potentially useful.

https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/2021/11/04/plastic-eating-mushrooms