{"id":158336,"date":"2026-10-04T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158336"},"modified":"2026-10-04T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:00:07","slug":"mars-shelter-problem-can-be-solved-with-engineered-yeast-gelatin-and-sand-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158336","title":{"rendered":"Mars shelter problem can be solved with engineered yeast, gelatin and sand: paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFuture settlers on Mars would need houses, but they must either spend huge sums transporting construction materials from Earth or use enormous amounts of energy to melt Martian soil into bricks.<br \/>\nScientists in Hong Kong say they have developed a quick and low-cost \u201cliving\u201d building material made from genetically engineered yeast, gelatin and sand that can be 3D printed under conditions simulating the Martian environment.<br \/>\nTheir study, published online last month in Chem Circularity, an&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3368830\/mars-shelter-problem-can-be-solved-engineered-yeast-gelatin-and-sand-paper?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFuture settlers on Mars would need houses, but they must either spend huge sums transporting construction materials from Earth or use enormous amounts of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}