Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...
Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet for decades. Scientists worldwide are thinking about how to make Mars a ...
Turning Martian dust into shelter has long sounded like science fiction, but researchers are now treating it as an engineering problem with a biological answer. Instead of shipping steel and concrete ...