If you’ve ever stuck your hand into a raised garden bed on a crisp spring morning, you know the secret: it’s toasty in there!

Tiny nanoplastic fragments present in soil can make their way into the edible parts of vegetables, research has found.

Experiments show that biomolecules trapped in pure ice could withstand the harsh radiation of Mars for tens of millions of ...

A new study in Biochar reveals that nitrogen-fortified nanobiochar could significantly improve soil fertility and rice yields ...

The researchers have essentially carried out modification of desert sand into soil using polymers for reaping its full ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can turn lunar minerals into haematite, also known as rust. The discovery adds to ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have created and patented an innovative eco-friendly cryogel designed to prevent ...

Plants do more than photosynthesize - some of them make gold. Scientists in Finland found gold particles inside Norway spruce ...

Using an advanced method, researchers at TU Graz and the Centre for Electron Microscopy have detected plastic in the roots of wheat plants. Whether the particles reach the ears of grain will be shown ...

Gaseous CO2 dissolves in rainwater, forming carbonic acid. Even if the rainwater is unpolluted — not so-called “acid rain” — ...

Dual emission carbon dots strengthen maize photosynthesis and stress tolerance by converting light more efficiently and ...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles of organic ...