🔬 ~ 💗 Scientists Create a ‘Living Concrete’ That Uses Bacteria to Heal Itself When Damaged 💕 ~ | Blogger: Wauv!... According to this report, cyanobacteria, green microbes absorb carbon dioxide gas to help them grow and make calcium carbonate - the main ingredient in limestone and, as it turns out, cement... BTW, reminds me on the scientists that have recently made a discovered that a strand of fungi in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant feeds on radiation... Nature can still heal itself, if humans stop destroying it💚... |

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“The sky’s the limit for our creativity,” Srubar said

Researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings—and they’re doing it with the help of some very tiny contractors.

In a study that appeared last month in the journal Matter, engineer Wil Srubar and his colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder describe their strategy for using bacteria to develop building materials that live, multiply, and deliver a lower carbon footprint to boot.

“We already use biological materials in our buildings, like wood, but those materials are no longer alive,” said Srubar, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering. “We’re asking: Why can’t we keep them alive and have that biology do something beneficial, too?”

You can’t buy these microorganisms turned bricks at your local Home Depot just yet, but the researchers say that their ability to keep their bacteria alive with a high success rate shows that living buildings might not be too far off in the future.(READ MORE)

Such structures could one day heal their own cracks, suck up dangerous toxins from the air, or even glow on command.(RED MORE)