Study: Earth's Underground Fungal Network Spans 10% of Milky Way

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An invisible network of fungi that stretches beneath the soil surface plays a crucial role in sustaining life on Earth and storing carbon, and its dimensions are hard to imagine. According to a study published in the journal Science and cited by Live Science, if all the filaments of this network were arranged in a straight line, they would stretch for about 110 quadrillion kilometers, the equivalent of about 10% of the diameter of the Milky Way. The research provides the first global map of