Sharing a picture of a brick whose surface has been marked with the footprints of a child and a goat, she says, “When you read Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) reports, a lot of it is about ...

Sintered bricks are brittle. If you have a crack and ... To address this, the IISc team is proposing an experiment on India’s Gaganyaan mission to study the bacteria’s growth and calcium ...

Indian scientists from Bengaluru are turning bacteria into moon masons. Using Sporosarcina pasteurii, they’ve created bricks from lunar dust simulant—cheap, light, and Earth-free. The bacteria ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have pioneered a groundbreaking bacteria-based technique for repairing bricks intended for lunar habitats, addressing potential damage caused ...

Indian Institute of Science, said, “We were initially not sure if the bacteria would bind to the sintered brick. But we found that the bacteria can not only solidify the slurry but also adhere ...