Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Potting soil does not go bad after one use. The unused half-bags of potting soil will work the same manner as potting soil ...

Dan Scolnic is a Hubble and KICP Fellow at The Kavli Institute For Cosmological Physics at The University of Chicago. He ...

NASA's Perseverance rover collects Martian soil samples from Jezero Crater, revealing potential signs of past life on Mars.

Here are some practical tips for maintaining your irrigation system and ensuring your plants thrive during Marin’s winter ...

A study has identified key genetic pathways in corn that help its roots branch out to find water in soil; the varieties adapted to temperate regions like the U.S. corn belt showed large differences in ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Unfertilized soybean fields with lower soil fertility should be planted earlier than high fertility fields, according to a ...

Food scientists at Washington State University are working to make pancakes healthier by boosting the popular morning favorite’s nutritional value while enhancing its taste and texture. Generally, ...

More than half of those who earn Ph.D.s now decide to leave academia after graduation. Why, then, do so many graduate ...