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Between approximately 450 BCE and 950 CE, millions of Amerindian people living in today's Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil through various processes. Over many human generations, soils were enriched with charcoal ...
Subglacial lakes that never see the light of day are among the least accessible frontiers of science, brimming with more tales yet untold than even the planets of our solar system. One thing seems certain: where there is ...
Microbes are just about everywhere, from the soil to the air to Arctic ice to oceans, lakes, and rivers—not to mention all over your body and the phone or computer you're using right now.
"One of the great mysteries of biology," says Eric Libby, former SFI Postdoctoral Fellow, now an associate professor at the Integrated Science Lab (IceLab), Umeå University in Sweden, "is eukaryogenesis, or how eukaryotes ...
At its grand opening in 1913, the Los Angeles Aqueduct sent a torrent of fresh mountain water cascading into the Los Angeles valley to the cheers of an onlooking crowd of 30,000 people. The water, diverted from the Owens ...
"Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history." So began the blurb that came with this book. ...
Certain species of microbes have evolved to survive in harsh environments, even those that were previously thought to be too extreme to support life. These include environments, such as mines and industrial sewage, that are ...
Could vast, long-hidden oceans be teeming with alien life in our very own Solar System?
If it weren't for the oceans, our planet would be warming far faster. Oceans take up about 30% of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere each year, thanks in large part to marine microorganisms. Now, the results of ...
Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities on Earth, living in every type of habitat. In the ocean alone viruses are ten times more abundant than microbes.
