Essen's research on diatomaceous earth highlights its potential as a cost-effective and renewable resource for water purification.

Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between ...

Their recent study published in Advanced Sustainable Systems demonstrates that the fossil remains of diatoms (a type of algae) can efficiently remove contaminants from water after being chemically ...

Europe's water bodies are in poor condition: more than half of them are heavily polluted with chemicals. This is hardly surprising—every day, up to 70,000 different chemicals are used in Europe's ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would ...

Sarakiniko is the ideal Earth analogue for space studies, especially for the exploration of the Moon and Mars, stresses Dr.

DE is a natural ingredient containing “diatoms” (the finely ground fossils of tiny aquatic organisms.) that can kill insects in some seed-starting mixes. When insects go into the soil with DE, this ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...