Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Seventy percent of soils in Europe are contaminated with pesticides. A Europe-wide study co-led by researchers of the ...

Researchers discovered that microbes respire three times as much CO2 from lignin carbons compared to cellulose carbons. When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two ...

Female bumblebees visiting flowers of Chamaecrista latistipula in the wild. The insect makes internal parts of the flower vibrate in order to extract protein-rich pollen grains, which it carries away ...

Rows of gray plastic film stretch across a field of soil. Leafy green strawberry plants poke out of holes in the top of the film. Agricultural plastics, such as this mulch film covering strawberry ...

We're going to be on the Moon a lot more often soon, and that means we'll need places to rest, conduct research, and work there. Building habitats and maintaining them will be tough, but bacteria ...

Soil should be alive and it is a fact that chemical fertilizers kill the microbial activity in soil. Do we really need ...

In an interdisciplinary study, researchers discovered that symbiotic bacteria communicate with legume plants through specific molecules and that this communication influences which bacteria grow near ...