Gardening can also deliver benefits that go well beyond food.

When people begin gardening, they usually focus on sunlight and watering. While these are essential for plant survival, another factor quietly determi ...

While there's little scientific evidence to back this up, some gardeners recommend adding brown sugar to your tomato plants' ...

Microbial communities are considered particularly diverse—in soil, water and the human body. A common assumption in ecology ...

Life on Mars and How to Find It,” Benner pulls no punches in drawing powerful conclusions based on both his own research and ...

Did Viking 1 find evidence of life on Mars? Fifty years after the NASA lander touched down, the jury is still out.

Nothing spoils gardening excitement faster than a patch of soil that feels more like concrete than earth. Hard, crusty soil ...

Fertilizers carry a hidden cost for soil’s crucial microbes – using less as prices rise might pay off for farmers in ...

White clover is an excellent companion plant for leafy greens, because it supplies nitrogen, suppresses weeds, and retains ...

A new multi-centre study, funded by ICMR & published in The Lancet, flags Nontuberculous Mycobacterial disease as an emerging ...

A study shows that Mars might provide a supportive environment for microbes that will reach the Red Planet with the ...

Sri Lanka’s plantation sector has long been the backbone of the rural economy, generating employment, foreign exchange, ...