New research suggests that bacteria could be used to repair and strengthen bricks made from lunar soil, or regolith.

The reinforcement technique withstands extreme lunar temperatures. BENGALURU: In fresh progress relating to lunar brick development for future lunar habitation, researchers at the Indian Institute ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a bacteria-based technique to repair bricks that can be ...

The IISc team has developed a method that utilises lunar soil, or "regolith," combined with a soil bacterium called Sporosarcina pasteurii.

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Deep neural networks have shown impressive results in weld defect detection. However, in real-world spiral welding systems, the differences in appearance and distribution between spiral weld images ...

Over a few days, the slurry penetrated into the defects and the bacterium produced ... bound the soil particles together with the residual brick structure, thereby recovering much of the brick ...

Typically, during the deposition process, sulfur vacancies (SVs) create defects that lead to an actual ratio of approximately 1:1.68, which hinders electron flow and affects the performance and ...

Topological defects are quasiparticles whose topological nature provides some stability against perturbations. Skyrmions, domain walls, dislocations in crystals, vortices in superconductors and ...