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Yeast glue and gelatin freeze-dry into a Mars building material as strong as low-grade concrete
Jishen Qiu's team let Mars-like cold and vacuum do the hardening, printing cork-sized domes with the compressive strength of low-grade concrete. The imported gelatin and yeast are what the method still costs.
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