Moving into a new home is exciting—a fresh start, a blank canvas, and the potential to build a space that truly reflects your ...

How long does waste really last? A common plastic bag, if left untreated, takes approximately 20 years to decompose. A plastic bottle? Arou ...

Health oriented consumers identify grass fed, hormone free organic beef as a safer alternative to conventional meat. Perceptions of lower antibiotic residues and healthier fatty acid profiles are ...

Tridecanoic acid (C13) is a rare, odd-chain saturated fatty acid produced mainly by gut and rumen microbes, entering ...

In Maryland, a coalition of business and labor groups are suing Montgomery County for its law requiring the county executive ...

You may have been told that if your car has a turbocharger that you absolutely need to use high-octane gas, but just how true ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have ...

Summer has arrived! Schools are out for summer vacation, and all the great summer activities have begun! The month of May was ...

On Earth, our familiar carbonate is calcite (calcium carbonate), forming vast limestone deposits. This is a cornerstone of Earth's long-term carbon cycle: volcanic CO2 enters the atmosphere, dissolves ...

Join planetary scientist Beth Johnson as we explore a groundbreaking discovery from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Scientists have identified siderite—a rare iron carbonate mineral—within ancient ...

A new study has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ is released from the surfaces ...

Ancient carbon is trapped in rocks, peat bogs and wetlands. The findings suggest that as much as 1 gigatonne of it is being released back into the atmosphere each year through rivers. That means ...