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Taking the First Step Towards a Martian Moon: Polish-Built Soil Sample Instrument Completes First Stage
April 28, 2011 — The geological penetrator CHOMIK (Polish word for hamster), built for the purpose of collecting a soil sample from one of the Martian moons, has completed the first stage of preparations. Following ... > full story -
Rare Pennsylvania Fungus Is Named for Philadelphia Botanist
April 27, 2011 — A Philadelphia botanist who has studied rare plants for 50 years, but has never attained the honor of having a plant named for him is finally getting his due, but with a barely visible organism so ... > full story -
Novel Microorganism 'Nitrososphaera Viennensis' Isolated
April 25, 2011 — Microorganisms play an important role in global nutrient cycles. A research team has isolated the first ammonium oxidizing Archaeon from a soil in Vienna and thus proved its ... > full story -
Phage Hunting Students Find New Bacteriophages in Soils of St. Louis Suburbs
April 25, 2011 — Twelve students who had participated in an unusual biology course as freshmen have found two bacteriophages, viruses that prey exclusively on bacteria, in the soil of two suburbs of St. Louis, ... > full story -
Organic and Conventional Farming Methods Compete to Eliminate Weed Seeds in Soil
April 21, 2011 — Weeds are hard to kill; they seem to come back no matter what steps people take to eradicate them. One reason is because of the persistence of weed seeds in the soil. Organic farming and conventional ... > full story -
Biologist Illuminates How Seedlings Regulate Growth
April 21, 2011 — All kinds of organisms, from plants to people, regulate growth via networks of proteins that add on and lop off phosphate molecules. Scientists can now explain key steps that allow seedlings to make ... > full story -
Distribution of British Soil Bacteria Mapped for the First Time
April 19, 2011 — Britain's soil bacteria have been mapped for the first time in the most comprehensive study of a country's soil biodiversity to date. To complete the map the scientific team analyzed over 1,000 soil ... > full story -
Gold Prices Spur Six-Fold Spike in Amazon Deforestation
April 19, 2011 — Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon has increased six-fold in recent years as small-scale miners, driven by record gold prices, blast and clear more of the lowland rainforest, according to ... > full story -
'Liquefaction' Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage
April 18, 2011 — The massive subduction zone earthquake in Japan caused a significant level of soil "liquefaction" that has surprised researchers with its widespread severity, a new analysis shows. The findings also ... > full story -
Filtering out Pesticides With Genetically Modified Bacteria
April 14, 2011 — Genetically modified bacteria could be used in air filters to extract pesticide vapors from polluted air, new research ... > full story
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