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The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete
Made from faux Martian and lunar soil, a new sulfur-based compound could also lead to faster construction on Earth.
'The nastiest soils on Earth' are getting recognized as a bigger problem
A new doctoral thesis provides valuable insights into the microbiology of acid sulfate soils, sometimes dubbed "the ...
New Scientist on MSN2d
Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less harm
Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing ...
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Why soil matters (and what we can do to save it)
A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...
Soil degradation threatens food supply and scientists are calling for action
The world's growing population is putting pressure on its arable land, and scientists warn 90 per cent of all soil could be ...
Nature3y
Soil Carbon Storage
Vertical distribution of roots along a soil toposequence in the New Jersey pinelands ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 35, 313-347 (2007). [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on ...
NASA scrapped its $11 billion scheme to grab Mars rocks that may point to alien life. Now it has a faster, cheaper plan.
NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The ...