{"id":890231,"date":"2026-02-05T03:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/martian-toxin-found-to-toughen-microbe-built-bricks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:14:53","slug":"martian-toxin-found-to-toughen-microbe-built-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/martian-toxin-found-to-toughen-microbe-built-bricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian toxin found to toughen microbe built bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not survive easily on Mars, where the soil contains toxic perchlorate salts at levels that can reach about 1 percent by weight. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have now shown how a brick building soil bacterium responds to this chemical and discovered that although the toxin slows growth and stresses the cells&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/Martian_toxin_found_to_toughen_microbe_built_bricks_999.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margherita Buresh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2026 Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not survive easily on Mars, where the soil contains toxic perchlorate salts at levels that can reach about 1 percent by weight. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have now shown how a brick building soil bacterium responds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":890232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23885,536,57708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-martian","category-science-nature","category-toxin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}