'Real-life Project Hail Mary': Scientists discover a hidden fungal network beneath Earth stretching 110 q - The Times of India

Beneath forests, grasslands and even the soil in our gardens lies an extraordinary hidden world that most people never see. Scientists have now mapped a vast underground network of microscopic fungi stretching an estimated 110 quadrillion kilometres across Earth's topsoil, a distance so immense that it could reach the Sun nearly a billion times.