Too long to read? Go for the highlights below. Artist Sam Shoemaker  successfully paddled a 12-foot kayak constructed from Ganoderma polychromum  mycelium composites across the Catalina Channel in California, covering 26 miles in 12 hours The artist just made all of his mycelium composite research open access . The project required nine weeks of incubation inside a fiberglass form, with the final structure weighing 106 pounds and shrinking 20% during the drying process When a

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