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Bacteria could fill cracks in bricks made from lunar soil on the Moon | Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil.
We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria could come to the rescue by helping repair cracked bricks made from lunar soil.
This builds on research from 2020, where IISC scientists created 'space bricks' using a calcium-based lunar soil simulant, urea, the aforementioned S. pasteurii, and guar beans. In their recent study published last week in the journal Frontiers, the scientists created defects in the sintered bricks and poured a slurry of S. pasteurii, guar gum, and lunar soil simulant into them. Abhimanyu has been a trusted voice in the science, technology, transport innovations, startup and AI spaces for more than a decade at several global outlets, including three and a half years as the managing editor at TNW.
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