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Express News ServiceBENGALURU: A space brick that researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) came up with for future moon habitats might just show a breakthrough in the construction sector back on Earth. Team looking to subject Space Brick to microgravityKumar and his team have made the moon sand stronger for construction, by infusing bio-mineralisation or bio-cementation bacteria into it. The bacteria builds a cocoon of calcium carbonate layers around it and dies. The sand and the calcium carbonate are bound together by biopolymers (protien plus other things) that ooze out of the bacteria. When the brick itself is growing naturally using a bacteria that is natural to the planet, carbon footprint is negative..