Douglas Fox

Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist who writes about life, Earth, and Antarctic sciences. His stories have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, High Country News, Discover, Nature and The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

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Futuristic Mars habitat with transparent walls, showing people tending to green plants and fungi inside. Astronauts and rovers are visible on the red, rocky Martian surface outside.

The first homes on Mars may be alive

Instead of hauling heavy building materials across space, future astronauts may grow fungal shelters from spores, waste, and local regolith.

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