Scientists Think Fungi Could Turn Martian Dirt Into Farmland

Scientists Think Fungi Could Turn Martian Dirt Into Farmland

Scientists from the United States and Brazil are exploring how beneficial fungi could turn Martian and lunar regolith into fertile growing media You’re on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you’ve been tasked with establishing the first self-sustaining food crop on a Martian settlement. You’re nervous because you’re using a new type of fungi [...]