Curiosity Daily: Asteroid-eating Fungi, Psychedelic…Maybe, Printing Organs

Hungry mushrooms.

• Fungi Could Make Soil From Asteroids and Homes on Mars by Madeleine Gregory
• https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/fungi-could-make-soil-from-asteroids-and-homes-on-mars
• Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi by Jane Shevtsov
• https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Making_Soil_for_Space_Habitats/
• Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi? by Frank Tavares
• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/myco-architecture
• Future Space Travel Might Require Mushrooms by Nick Hilden
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/

Far out thoughts.

• Citizen Scientists Show Placebo Effect May Explain Benefits of Microdosing by Ryan O’hare
• https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/216134/citizen-scientists-show-placebo-effect-explain/
• Self-Blinding Citizen Science to Explore Psychedelic Microdosing by Balázs Szigeti, et al.
• https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62878
• What to Know About Microdosing LSD by Medical News Today
• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/microdosing-lsd
• Psychedelic Microdosing Benefits and Challenges: An Empirical Codebook by Thomas Anderson, et al.
• https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0308-4

A different kind of printer.

• “When we'll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them” by Kristen Rogers
• https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/10/health/3d-printed-organs-bioprinting-life-itself-wellness-scn/index.html
• “Advanced Polymers for Three-Dimensional (3D) Organ Bioprinting” by Xiaohong Wang.
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952999/#:~:text=Three%2Ddimensional%20(3D)%20organ%20bioprinting%20is%20the%20utilization%20of,7%2C8%2C9%5D

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