Rock outcrops, long regarded as passive geological features, may play an active and crucial role in shaping soil function in ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...

Carlo Van Herk, field operations lead at the Farming Smarter Association in Lethbridge, supervised research on the best time to roll cereal crops.

It is just very difficult for new plants to compete with tree roots, especially in the shade. Add organic matter to the ...

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...

In a sci-fi leap made real, a separate spacecraft will retrieve the samples and launch them from the Martian surface—humanity ...

What’s in a word? Well, if it’s the word dirt or soil, it turns out, it’s a lot. While most people, myself included, often ...