A Johns Hopkins professor is getting $1.25 million from the state to conduct "groundbreaking" research in astromycology - the study of fungi in space.
It all sounds very Star Trekky - but it is obviously a very important area of research considering the amount of off world activity that’s being planned by so many different nations and corporations.
Stalker reckons though that we're light years away from the ‘spore drive’ depicted in one of the iterations of the Star Trek franchise.
