Wow

Over the next 15 years thousands of strains of hundreds of different species of microfungi were isolated from in and around the Chernobyl disaster site[1]. In tests many of them grew towards strong sources of ionising radiation and some even appeared able to digest so-called ‘hot particles’ – immensely radioactive graphite from the reactor core itself.

I’m pretty sure that’s the protomolecule from The Expanse

This is great and super interesting. I’d still be afraid to eat them tho.