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This is a curated resource guide on all topics related to Pioneer Labs, with the aim of educating more people about the topics of terraforming and extremophiles. Check out any of our vetted content below based on your interest.
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A Research Roadmap for Assessing the Feasibility of Warming Mars
A roadmap outlining research pathways to determine whether Mars could be warmed with hybrid or non-biological methods
How to Export Life to Mars
A new science—applied astrobiology—is taking shape. Our 2025 Green Mars Workshop is featured in The Economist.
An Introduction to Mars Terraforming, 2025
A summary of contemporary techniques for terraforming, prepared for the 2025 Green Mars workshop.
Designer Microbes Aid Space Exploration
Synthetic biology offers a toolkit to engineer microbes capable of surviving in outer space and for biomanufacturing materials to support astronauts on long missions.
This Week in Space
If we're ever to make Mars a second home, we have some serious housekeeping to do... as in a total renovation. A discussion on biotech in space and its many applications, including terraforming.
Universe Today Podcast
Terraforming Mars is usually considered in the realm of science fiction. But we have technology to start doing it in our lifetime.
The Case for Mars Terraforming Research
A Nature Astronomy perspective on why terraforming must be urgently studied.
Planetary Radio
We take you inside the Mars Innovation Workshop, hosted at the SETI Institute’s headquarters and produced by Explore Mars.
Grow Everything Podcast
The Grow Everything podcast featured Erika in a discussion of evolution, automation, and space science.
Renegade Science Podcast
In this episode of Science Renegade, we explore the fascinating world of biomanufacturing for space with Erika Alden DeBenedictis, CEO of Pioneer Labs.
New Space
Pioneer was featured in Story Co's first documentary, New Space.
"Let's Go Do That"
An interview with our CEO on the origins of life and the possibility of terraforming Mars.
Space Synthetic Biology: A Paradigm for Sustainability on Earth and Beyond
Here we present the case that synthetic biology is an enabling technology that will work in synergy with a growing bioeconomy to solve a broad array of challenges facing humans on- and off-Earth.
Why Nothing Can Grow on Mars*
*probably. An essay on the challenges an organism would face outdoors on Mars.
