A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, ‘hydration solids.’ The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange behavior of spores, dormant bacterial cells.
A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, ‘hydration solids.’ The new findings emerged from ongoing research into the strange behavior of spores, dormant bacterial cells.