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Soil

Bricks with artificially created flaws, alongside bricks repaired using the bacteria-filled slurry
Space

A bacteria-based technique to repair lunar bricks

Amit Malewar

A promising step for sustainable construction in extraterrestrial environments.

Group of llamas
Environment

Animal poop helps ecosystems adapt to climate change, study

Pranjal Malewar

The activity of this animal could accelerate the time plants.

soil contamination
Environment

Cleaning contaminated soil using proteins

Pranjal Malewar

In 2020, Lausanne's soil was contaminated with dioxins from manufacturing processes. Cleaning is expensive and time-consuming, leaving officials unsure whether to proceed. EPFL scientists are...

Soil texture background for gardening concept
Health

How the dirt under our feet could affect human health?

Pranjal Malewar

Soil isn’t just dirt.

urine collection
Plants

Human urine: An eco-friendly crop fertilizer

Pranjal Malewar

1 yr stored urine had little impact on soil bacterial communities and produced minimal change in soil pH.

plant
Science

Researchers use traffic noise to measure soil moisture

Ashwini Sakharkar

New method relies upon seismic technology that normally measures how the ground shakes during earthquakes.

Cracked road
AI & Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence helps predict soil liquefaction risk

Ashwini Sakharkar

Towards smart cities.

Close-up of plant
Environment

Soil bacteria breathe out more CO2

Dr. Prajakta Banik

CO2 release in bacterial metabolism.

barley diversity panel
Plants

Unlocking the secrets: Barley plants and soil microbes

PLOS

The custom community of beneficial microbes improve the plants’ growth.

Land with dry and cracked ground and green field Desert Global warming background
Plants

Nanomedicine and digital twin tech tackle food insecurity and climate change

Pranjal Malewar

How medical models can transform agriculture?

Magnificent scenery on the Nile River Sunset Aswan Egypt
Environment

Scientists discovered how the river Nile evolved over the past 11,500 years

Pranjal Malewar

Crucial shift in River Nile’s evolution during ancient Egypt discovered.

Scanning electron microscopy of smectite clay (montmorillonite) common in organic matter trapping in soils
Environment

Study explains how soil traps carbon

Pranjal Malewar

New findings explain how soil sequesters plant-based carbon from the atmosphere.

Image showing plant root hair
Plants

A plant gene required for root hair growth found in grasses

Pranjal Malewar

Plant cell types: Unlocking the mystery of root hair development.

Image showing Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Environment

How capturing carbon in savannas can reduce global warming?

Vidya Nagalwade

Grasses play an important role in capturing carbon in tropical savannas.

Cute little boy watering plants in the garden at spring sunny day crop planting at fields
Health

Childhood stunting is linked with low zinc levels in soil

Vidya Nagalwade

Growing solutions to childhood stunting.

Image showing Upland Tundra Landscape Autumn.
Environment

Arctic soil methane consumption increases in a drier climate

Vidya Nagalwade

Well-drained soils remove methane from the atmosphere.

Image showing apples
Health

The fungus breaks down harmful food toxin

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Isolating and characterizing filamentous fungi with patulin-degrading abilities.

Image showing pills
Biology

New antibiotic targets drug-resistant bacteria

Dr. Prajakta Banik

New antibiotic targets immutable bacterial structure.

Image showing mudslide flooding.
Environment

How do wildfires cause mudslides and floods?

Vidya Nagalwade

What happens to a landscape after a wildfire?

graphic presentations
Science

A nematode dormant for 46,000 years in Siberian permafrost revived

PLOS

Genome analysis shows new nematode species shares molecular toolkit for survival with C. elegans.

Image showing woman holds tomato seedlings grown in pots before planting to garden.
Biology

How do bacteria affect plant growth?

Vidya Nagalwade

UC Riverside's research focuses on sustainable agriculture practices.

Image showing bacteria
Health

Study finds widespread exposure to drug-resistant fungal spores

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Citizen scientists help uncover overall exposure to drug-resistant fungal bioaerosols.

Image showing microplastics.
Environment

Sustainable PET waste utilization for enhancing sand-bentonite clay liners

Vidya Nagalwade

UBCO researchers explore alternative plastic bottle applications.

Image illustrating soil microbes
Environment

Global warming could surge the CO2 emissions from soil microbes

Pranjal Malewar

Microbial CO2 emissions in the polar regions will increase twice as much as in the rest of the world.

Hands with microplastics on the beach
Environment

Microplastics are a major issue in human airways

Vidya Nagalwade

Humans inhale 16.2 bits of plastic every hour.

Image showing modest moss.
Science

Modest moss can store billions of tons of carbon

Vidya Nagalwade

Plant life absorbs & transforms greenhouse gases to combat climate change..

Image showing Horizontal Aerial view of rivers in tropical mangrove forests.
Science

The secret of the Amazonian dark earth could help forest restoration

Vidya Nagalwade

Amazonian dark earth facilitates the establishment of tree species in forest restoration.

Image showing small plants.
Technology

Researchers have developed a tool to optimize irrigation

Vidya Nagalwade

Farmers can conserve water by using irrigation optimization techniques.

Image showing biopolyester grey.
Technology

Grad student designs “artificial muscles” to be used in compost bins

Vidya Nagalwade

soft robotic actuators made up of sustainable materials.

Image showing ants.
Plants

Nonnative leaf-litter ants are replacing native ants

Vidya Nagalwade

Leaf-litter ants are declining in Florida, increasing in nonnative ants.

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Space

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Geology

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Space

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Space