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Bacteria Become Masons Binding Sand Into Solid Structures at ETH Zurich

Photo credit: Gerhard Bliedung | ETH ZurichKaren Antorveza Paez finished her doctorate at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich after years spent turning a known bacterial process into finished architectural pieces. Certain living bacteria called Sporosarcina pasteurii can lock loose grains of sand together by growing microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate between them, the […]