ISRO is not just sending humans to space but also launching India’s first biological satellite, which will carry a sample of soil bacteria—Sporosarcina pasteurii. At the Indian Institute of Science ...

Recently, researchers have shifted their attention to a tiny bacterium called Sporosarcina pasteurii that can produce a form of calcium mineral called biocement. The microbes break down urea and ...

The bacteria, Sporosarcina pasteurii, is able to make calcium carbonate that can act as a sealant to fix bricks made from lunar regolith. Constructing solar arrays out of moon dust would reduce ...