For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

This describes rocks being broken up by changes in temperature, freezing and thawing of trapped water or the action of waves and rivers. During biological weathering, rocks are broken up by the ...

A discovery in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia has opened new doors in the world of geomicrobiology.

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an ...