Mineral particles played a key role in raising oxygen levels in the Earth’s atmosphere billions of years ago, with major implications for the way intelligent life later evolved, according to new ...

Tiger Iron formed when in the sea dissolved iron reacted with free oxygen produced by the first photosynthetic life forms on Earth. For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely ...

Almost ten years after the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, researchers discovered a new kind of highly radioactive mineral particle in the fallout. The plant suffered major ...

New insights into the binding of carbon to mineral particles in permafrost can improve the prediction of greenhouse gas release. About a quarter of the organic carbon contained in ice-rich Arctic ...

Researchers have developed a safer and more efficient way to deliver a promising new method for treating cancer and liver disorders and for vaccination. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers ...

Surface buoy designed by NIOZ collecting mineral dust particles that originate from the Sahara desert and have travelled over the Atlantic Ocean. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the ...