{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The mushrooms that glow alone in the darkness of the forest","description":"What would change in your night if you knew that the forest around you is on fire? There is a light that needs neither moon nor fire nor human hand to hold it. It is not an accident; it is the continuous work of something alive. A fallen bark in the darkness emits a green glow that no eye expects to find there, and tonight, if you walked on damp ground, you would be surrounded by that light without knowing it. \r\n \r\nThere are eighty-two species of fungi that produce visible light throughout their lives without ever stopping. That glow comes from a chemical reaction that occurs within the living tissue of the fungus, and the color it emits, five hundred twenty nanometers, is exactly the one that the human eye detects most easily in the dark. The fungus does not know that, but its chemistry produces precisely the color that is best seen. \r\n \r\nIf that light comes from a continuous chemical reaction, then there is a molecule that produces it every time the fungus breathes.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}