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Dr Shiva Khoshtinat is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering 'Giulio Natta' at Politecnico di Milano. With an interdisciplinary background spanning civil engineering, architecture, materials science, and biology, she explores how nature’s strategies can inspire sustainable construction on Earth and beyond. Her research focuses on biomineralization and microbial co-cultures as self-sustaining systems for construction. In a recent publication in Frontiers in Microbiology, Khoshtinat and co-authors present a bold approach for construction on Mars, harnessing microbial partnerships to transform Martian regolith into structural materials, laying the scientific foundations for building the first habitats on the Red Planet.
Building on the University of Arizona's leadership in interferometry, a Steward Observatory-led team of astronomers probe mysterious "hot dust" around stars that has vexed astronomers for decades. The observed amounts are large enough to lead the team to believe the dust is being rapidly replaced, or some sort of mechanism extends its lifetime.