Nature’s hardware store: building the future with biology

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Fungi homes – and more ways biology could sustain life beyond Earth

A peril and promise of space travel is that navigating its frontiers is so complex that it requires ambitious and novel problem-solving strategies. As the US astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild explains in this lecture, presented in San Francisco in October 2025, one of the biggest hurdles to establishing permanent human colonies beyond Earth is creating and transporting building materials suited to........

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