Nitrogen from bedrock can result in side-by-side productive forests and barren acidic areas

Biologist expands pursuit of desert-dwelling microbes

Research team finds the answer in ancient sedimentary rocks from central Australia

Findings published in the journal Science

Using atom probe tomography, researchers were able to accurately date such events in baddeleyite, a relatively common but small uranium-bearing mineral in planetary igneous rocks

Experiments at Berkeley Lab show scientists how pumice can remain buoyant for years