A two-year Chinese field trial shows that partially replacing chemical fertilizers with peanut shells and mushroom residue boosts soil organic carbon, enzyme activity, and beneficial microbes in ...

A cell sitting in fluid looks like one of the most passive things in biology. Nutrients drift toward it on the aimless ...

A seventh grader from Palatine, Illinois, has turned eggshells into calcium carbonate crystals and used them to investigate ...

A team of researchers in Himachal Pradesh, India, has wrapped a beneficial soil bacterium in a microscopic armor made of ...

A well-mixed powder consisting of dry urea and urease exposed to air containing discrete amounts of water vapor showed a release of carbon-14 dioxide above 60-percent relative humidity. The relative ...

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Coastal erosion severely threatens the stability of sandy shorelines, necessitating low-cost and sustainable bio-mediated treatment methods for shoreline protection. This study investigates an ...

After seven movies, the “Paranormal Activity” franchise doesn’t frighten audiences the way it once did — that is, through the power of suggestion, using home security cameras, smartphones and webcams ...

In biocementation, the overall degree of cementation achieved is constrained by the successful completion of four individual, potentially rate-limiting steps: (i) adsorption of the biocatalyst urease ...

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An international research team led by the University of Waterloo is developing technology to dissolve painful kidney stones in the urinary tract using tiny robots. The research is published in the ...