Nematodes have oily surfaces that impact survival and interactions, offering insights into evolution and parasite control. A ...

The London institution’s new show features a variety of works that emphasise the wonder and critical importance of dirt ...

How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

Farmyard manure (FYM) is a valuable resource in any grassland system but for an organic farm whose only other input sources are magnesium lime ...

Even if you don't have much outdoor space, you can still take advantage of the benefits of composting kitchen scraps with the ...

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to identify 25 new protein compounds that can kill bacteria and fungi, including two that showed particular potency against skin and lung infections ...

The survival of high relative abundance bacterial community taxa in the microbial communities provides compelling evidence of the high adaptability of bacteria to long-term mercury contamination of ...

Recent research at Western Sydney University demonstrates that specific beneficial fungi can stabilise soil carbon. These findings validate CarbonBuilder™, a new biotechnology from Loam Bio ...

Students in PEI schools have been learning about raising worms and the importance of keeping the soil healthy. Agriculture in the Classrooms PEI has been running the Vermicomposting or worm ...

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have a unique ability to respire under anaerobic conditions using sulfate as a terminal electron acceptor, reducing it to hydrogen sulfide. SRB thrives in many natural ...