In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a category 5 storm, bringing sustained winds of 295 ...

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, as a category 5 storm, bringing sustained winds of 295 ...

For over a decade, Ruth has written for multiple outlets providing patient education, including Health. She has written for health student education companies, collaborating on an anatomy textbook ...

One day the Red Planet will be the home to humans. Will their homes be built thanks to bacteria? Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Shipping bricks to Mars is a nonstarter. Every pound launched from Earth ...

We took quicklime (CaO), added water, and discovered why every chemistry book calls it “highly exothermic.” In this experiment, you’ll see how Calcium Hydroxide forms violently, beautifully, and ...

Calcium is one of the most abundant and important minerals in the body, playing a crucial role in how we function. Not getting enough can put you at risk for weakened bones that may progress to ...

Biocementation is a biomediated ground improvement method that can improve the engineering behavior of granular soils through the precipitation of calcium carbonate minerals. Although cemented bonds ...

Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for ...

Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into limestone-like deposits that lock away carbon, sweeten surrounding soils, and still ...

Abstract: Microbial carbonate precipitation (MCP) is a process increasingly studied with the goal to exploit it to adapt mechanical soil properties for desired land uses. Fundamental understanding of ...

Observations of high ferric iron content in diamond garnet inclusions and mantle plume melts suggest a highly heterogeneous distribution of ferric iron in the mantle. Recycling of oxidized materials ...