In a cavernous lab in eastern China, a metal giant is quietly rewriting the rules of gravity. The country has brought online ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of ...

This seeding method is the process of sewing grass in the winter when low air and soil temperatures prevent the grass from ...

In Panama’s tropical forests, trees are quietly rewriting the rules of survival. Faced with longer, harsher dry spells, they ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil ...

Tropical forests exchange more CO2 with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial biome, meaning that even a relatively small shift in the balance of carbon uptake and release there could have a big ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Soil organic matter (SOM) interactions with minerals, such as ferrihydrite, are ...

A thin layer found in the top few centimeters of soil plays a big role in its ecology. Biocrust is built, maintained and inhabited by a bunch of different organisms — including lichen, moss and algae.

Fourteen years since one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Japan is getting creative in the effort to convince people that the contaminated soil is safe enough to be recycled. Reading time 2 ...