Scientists from Nanjing University and the University of Macau have devised a new approach to extend the survival of transplanted probiotics in vivo, enhancing the efficacy of cancer ...

Geologists from MIT have identified smectite, a clay mineral with the unique ability to capture and store carbon for millions of years, potentially cooling Earth's climate. Found within seafloor ...

MIT geologists have found that a clay mineral on the seafloor, called smectite, has a surprisingly powerful ability to sequester carbon over millions of years. Under a microscope, a single grain of ...

Despite intensive research in the past several decades, the controls on the burial of organic-rich material in marine sediments are not fully understood by paleoceanographers and petroleum geologists.

In order to minimize the amount of human-produced greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere, numerous scientists have studied materials that could be used to capture excess carbon dioxide at one of its ...

A new study from two researchers at Binghamton University in New York could shed more light on what happened to water that once existed on Mars’ surface. Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies ...

The bright white region of this image shows the icy cap that covers Mars’ south pole, composed of frozen water and carbon dioxide. Mars’ enigmatic south pole --- with the water ice surface deposits ...

Spectral color map from the CRISM instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter draped over HiRISE imagery at the edge of the south polar ice cap. Specific colors from this map indicate the presence of ...

Evidence suggests Mars was once flowing with rivers, lakes and streams some four billion years ago and a new study believes much of it is hiding just miles below the Martian surface. Researchers at ...

Plate tectonics can trigger ice ages through the production of the carbon-trapping mineral smectite, according to a new study. MIT geologists have found that a clay mineral on the seafloor, called ...