A thin layer found in the top few centimeters of soil plays a big role in its ecology. Biocrust is built, maintained and ...

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

Antarctic research reveals how rare earth elements move underground through freeze-thaw cycles in desert environments.

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...