Moon 'shrooms? Fungi eyed to help build lunar bases and Mars outposts

Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 07:20 in Astronomy & Space

NASA researchers are investigating the potential of mycelia — the mass of nutrient-absorbing, widely branching underground threads that make up much of a fungus's bulk — to help construct outposts on the moon and Mars.

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