MADISON — In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ...

Researchers from Kunming University of Science and Technology have discovered that certain soil minerals can trap dissolved organic matter released from biochar, keeping more carbon in the soil and ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy—even after the lights go out. A team from Kunming University of Science and Technology and the University of ...

Soils lose moisture quickly during droughts because the molecular interactions that help retain water are not fully understood. Understanding this mechanism can help engineer soils to better preserve ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers examined the relationship between soil mineral content and health status among the pediatric and adult female populations of India. Study ...

It wasn’t too many years ago that in October and November, we could smell the smoke from burning leaves almost every day. Gardeners who knew about the potential benefits of those leaves were ...

Soil, or what I like to call the "tree environment," is filled with living organisms, organic matter, minerals, and nutrients of all sorts. In our greater Leon County area there are common ...

Relative efficiency of five chemical extractante for the extraction of available Zn in four different soils and its uptake by rice seedlings was studied in a pot culture experiment. The Zn extracted ...