If you’ve ever dug your hands into fresh earth and felt its cool, crumbly texture, you might have noticed the subtle, earthy ...

Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...

But there are huge downsides to ripping out grass and rolling out artificial lawn and experts have shared a key reason people ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

An unknown group of microbes is thriving in Earth's deep soil and they’re quietly helping to clean the water that becomes our ...

Brood XIV cicadas are expected to return to Virginia within the next few weeks, but will only emerge in part of the state.

Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where these microbes live ... because the deep soil is such a different environment, and this group of organisms has evolved over ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...