Vergessen Sie Beton: Wissenschaftler haben ein lebendes Baumaterial geschaffen, das wächst, atmet und seine eigenen Risse repariert

This material is reminiscent of Roman self-repairing concrete, but is a living material. Over time, it absorbs carbon from the air and transforms it into calcium carbonate.

Currently, the material is being tested for longer-term durability outside the laboratory environment at the Venice Biennale. It will be exciting to see if this material succeeds and if so, learn more about costs and other factors that would affect adoption. So many promising technologies work beautifully in the lab but are difficult or impossible to implement on a large enough scale to make a difference.

That’s the Stuff and you aren’t going to convince me otherwise.