Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a little dirt, scientists said on Sunday, a first step towards sampling the Martian soil for ice -- and the potential for life.
The odd habit of eating dirt may help bats fight off poisons, new research suggests.
... on Monday to process the soil that the Phoenix Mars Lander scooped from the Red Planet's surface, finding that the Martian dirt was too clumpy to sift into the spacecraft's onboard laboratory.
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is gearing up to perform its first taste test of red planet's arctic dirt.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths....
Dishing the dirt has a long history in Washington, but the Smithsonian Institution is taking it to new depths. The National Museum of Natural History opens a new exhibit on Saturday — "Dig It" — ...
Stickiness of icy dirt sample forces Phoenix to try dry dirt again.
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"It goes completely against our everyday experience with sticky tapes, which are 'magnets' for dirt and can't be reused," said Fearing. "With our gecko adhesive, we have been able to create ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it`s only one percent of these microbial bugs — the ones that can be grown easily in a lab — that have brought ...
A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but it's only one percent of these microbial bugs -- the ones that can be grown easily in a lab -- that have brought us antibiotics ...
... 's simulations could lead to improved design of tire treads for vehicles that drive on mostly sand or dirt roads. Beyond vehicle applications, researchers could use such simulations to study atomic ...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Archeologists say a teenage boy found an ancient half shekel coin in dirt from Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
... hard to grow in the lab. Now scientists at The Rockefeller University have taken the genetic material from a cup of dirt in Utah and derived a new family of antibiotics as strong as any used today.
The hygiene hypothesis suggests that organisms that enter the body along with “dirt” spur the development of a healthy immune system.
