New research has revealed how tiny soil microbes are impacted by extreme weather events, offering new insights into the risks ...

The University of Florida is helping NASA build a permanent moon colony. In 2025, as NASA plans to fly astronauts around the ...

NASA’s Artemis program, aimed at establishing a permanent moon base, relies on understanding lunar soil to use it as a ...

sometimes dubbed "the nastiest soils on Earth" because of the threat they pose to ecosystems. "When these areas experience a rainfall or snowmelt, the accumulated acid and dissolved metals are ...

The Tianzhou 7 spacecraft undocked from China's Tiangong space station on Nov. 10 and reentered Earth's atmosphere at around ...

A novel technique separates living (iDNA) and dead (eDNA) microbial DNA, enabling precise analysis of microbial life in the ...

The goal of this data exploration exercise is to illustrate the influence of soil properties on temporal patterns of soil moisture. The exercise does not contain deliverables to turn in as part of a ...

Phosphorus, a crucial nutrient for soil fertility and life sustainability, is increasingly vanishing from U.S. farmland.

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need ...

Have you ever wondered what the largest living organism on Earth is? Well, you might be surprised to learn that it's not a giant blue whale or a sequoia tree; it's a fungus!