At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s ...

Corroding microbes are a costly menace for industries relying on hidden and underground iron structures like sprinklers and oil pipelines. A recent study sheds light on the mechanisms behind microbial ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy — even after the lights go out. A ...

With 2,500 billion tons of carbon, soil is one of Earth's largest carbon sinks. Researchers used experiments and computational modeling to study interactions between carbon molecules and clay minerals ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When scientists started looking into the data, they found two types of iron-rich ...