The electrification speeds up a process called “mineral accretion” that helps ... Despite the success of the Pemuteran Bay project, Biorock technology – first discovered by German-born ...

The ESA BioRock space experiment was carried into orbit, bound for the International Space Station (ISS), on 25 July 2019 as part of the SpaceX CRS-18 mission. CRS-18 lifted off from Space Launch ...

Determined to help heal corals and with her background in metal arts and design, Flanigan began working with Biorock mineral accretion. “Just as planting trees to help the enviroment makes ...

Biorock is also the only marine construction material that's self-­repairing. So if the mineral layer is broken, the damaged area grows back first. All other marine construction materials ...

UK Centre for Astrobiology’s novel investigation aims to utilize microbes for metal and mineral mining from solid rock in space ... The novel investigation, known as BioRock, attempts to study microbe ...

The scientists wanted to know if they worked in microgravity too. The findings: BioRock was a series of 36 experiments that took place on the space station. An international team of scientists ...

The study, BioRock, also is the first test of extraterrestrial ... Scientists know very little about how microgravity affects microbe and mineral interactions, but previous research demonstrates ...

The idea is that the organisms use carbon to grow and can actually be trained to grow in the shape of a building–creating a new material called BioRock. “You make a steel frame, put it in ...

The initiative will see six BioRock structures installed off the coast of Cozumel, Mexico, where coral reefs have suffered from coral bleaching and been battered by hurricanes. Three designs ...