Science

A census of the soil microbiome

[ad_1] Corn root hairs (blue) are intimately colonized by bacteria (pink). Credit: D. Dar Many people have experienced the mysterious death of a houseplant. Despite the abundance of water and sunlight, something invisible appears to be happening beneath the soil surface to sabotage the plant’s health. Just as communities of …

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Fragments of the Hamburg meteorite: shed light on Earth’s past

[ad_1] A meteorite that crashed to Earth near Hamburg, Michigan in 2018 could offer new insights into the role of asteroids in transporting the building blocks of life to Earth, the researchers say. Pieces of space rock, which have roughly traveled through the Earth’s atmosphere 36,000 miles per hour (57.936 …

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