MADISON — In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ...

Researchers from Kunming University of Science and Technology have discovered that certain soil minerals can trap dissolved organic matter released from biochar, keeping more carbon in the soil and ...

Minerals can be either primary or secondary. Primary means they were formed as igneous rocks in the form of molten extrusive lava, which cools quickly, or as intrusive subsurface bodies that cool ...

Iron in the ground has quietly been doing climate work for centuries, binding carbon in soils so effectively that it can stay there for generations. New research is now unpacking how these minerals ...