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Organic soils, one of the pillars of Québec’s food self-sufficiency, could disappear within 50 years. Fortunately, the application of straw or wood chips could regenerate these soils.
In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
Technology businesses are already making computers with human matter.
Considering what we know about the key ingredients for life’s formation on Earth, here are three explanations for how this process may have occurred on our sister planet.
Storing more carbon in soil helps slow climate change and makes croplands more productive. But there are two kinds of soil carbon that are both important, but function very differently.
Lakes are the final resting place for many of the Earth’s plants – and these organic graveyards are about to get a whole lot busier.
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Professor and Canada Research Chair, Trent University; University of Cambridge
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Associate Researcher, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
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Research Scientist, Colorado State University
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Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University
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Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University
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Professeure, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et l'alimentation, Département des sols et de génie agroalimentaire, Université Laval
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Professeur titulaire en physique des sols agricoles, Université Laval
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Professeur en chimie des sols, Département des sols et de génie agroalimentaire, Université Laval
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Doctorante en sols et environnement, Département des sols et de génie agroalimentaire, Université Laval
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Reader in Astrophysics, University of Lancashire
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