Tag: soil

Fossils show leaf-eating insects tracked gum trees for millions of years

PALEONTOLOGY04/02/2025

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South America that...

The Greenland ice sheet is falling apart: New study

EARTH04/02/2025

Observing Greenland from a helicopter, the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I have thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before noticing the tiny shadow of a seabird far below...

Methods for building lunar landing pads may involve microwaving moon soil

MARS07/12/2022

Establishing a moon base will be critical for the U.S. in the new space race and building safe and cost-effective landing pads for spacecraft...

Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the moon and Earth

ASTRONOMY02/10/2022

In 2020, China's Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples...

NASA explains the mission to bring samples of Mars soil, rock and atmosphere back to Earth

ASTRONOMY04/07/2022

NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring 30 samples of rock, soil and atmosphere now being collected by the Perseverance rover back to...

Team develops new method of hunting for carbon in soil without digging or taking soil samples

EARTH01/04/2022

Physicists and soil scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed up to develop a new method for...