Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. 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 ...

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

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

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

Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex than a worm that is used precisely for its simplicity. For ...

The term symbiosis was first used by Heinrich Anton de Bary 1, a German botanist, in 1879 to describe the relationships between fungi and algae ... (for example, tube-worms) and arthropods ...

Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi ...

A recent study examines the effectiveness of environmental strains for the production of biocement. The study's lead author, ...

A study led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne has shown that the ability to ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...