<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:30px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4">"In a new “astromycological” venture <a href="https://paulstamets.com/news/astromycology-funded-by-nasa" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(101,101,101);text-decoration-line:none;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(101,101,101)">launched in conjunction with NASA</a>, Stamets and various research teams are studying how fungi can be leveraged to build extraterrestrial habitats and perhaps someday even terraform planets. This is not the first time Stamets’s career has intersected with speculative space science. He also recently received an honor that many researchers would consider only slightly less hallowed than a Nobel Prize: the distinction of having a <em style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Star Trek </em>character named after him.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:30px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(50,50,50);font-family:Georgia,serif"><font size="4"><em style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px;background:transparent;vertical-align:baseline">Scientific American </em>spoke with Stamets about the out-of-this-world implications for the emerging field of astromycology."</font></p><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-travels-most-surprising-future-ingredient-mushrooms/</a></font><br></div></div>