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Scientists have created a new building material from potato starch which, with a pinch of salt, could help build houses on the Moon and Mars.

Scientists have created a new building material from potato starch which, with a pinch of salt, could help build houses on the Moon and Mars.

Scientists have created a new potato-based concrete called StarCrete for building on Marsm and it is twice as strong as regular concrete

A team of scientists in the UK has created a new material and cosmic concrete, dubbed StarCrete which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build houses on Martian surface.

A team of scientists in the UK has created a new material, dubbed 'StarCrete' which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build houses on Martian surface.Building infrastructure in space is ...

Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve.But,

The mix improves on previous work where scientists used astronauts’ blood and urine as binding agents.

StarCrete is produced using planetary dust from the surface of the Red Planet, potato starch and a pinch of salt from astronauts' tears

Engineers from the University of Manchester say their concrete is twice as strong as conventional concrete. The secret ingredient? Potato starch.

‘StarCrete’ which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt.