India's agricultural success story, from food shortages to global leader, highlights the importance of soil health for prosperity and sustainability.

Phytochelatin synthases (PCSs) produce phytochelatins—tiny, cysteine-rich peptides that bind and neutralize toxic metal ions ...

Healthy soil sustains life. Minimize disturbance, keep living roots, boost biodiversity and maintain cover to improve yields, ...

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...

Healthy soil is the heart of thriving gardens and homesteads. Knowing the complex makeup of soil and how to care for it, can ...

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...

Just below our feet, there is a universe that is busy, active and alive. Next Saturday, the High Desert Museum invites ...

Researchers have recently proven that common soil bacteria can use light captured earlier in the day to power chemical work ...

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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured “ultraweak” photon emissions from living organisms. In rats this glow fades rapidly after death. In plants it brightens under stress. In the ...

The brain-eating amoeba, scientifically known as Naegleria fowleri, is a rare but deadly organism found in warm freshwater and soil. It enters the body through the nose, usually while swimming or ...