When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Many professionals expect wines grown in limestone soil to be more focused and acid-driven—but is there a reason why?

A rare find has been discovered in Stevns Klint, Denmark, a coastal region near the Baltic Sea, that reveals an ancient ...

Maja Adamska is Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Research School of Biology. Her group uses calcareous sponges to gain insight into the evolutionary origin of a variety of key ...

If you're someone who prefers to wash up by hand rather than using a dishwasher, you probably reach for the trusty sponge or scourer to scrub away food remnants from your dishes. However ...

The sponge, coated with nanoparticles that have an affinity for pollutants, can collect metals like zinc and copper, as well as phosphate, and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from ...

Sponges host dense and diverse communities of microbes (known as the microbiome) beneficial for the host nutrition and defense. Symbionts in turn receive shelter and metabolites from the sponge host, ...

A research team from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) has investigated this using the example of typical calcareous grassland areas in northern Bavaria. The study shows that smaller ...

The diversity of regenerative phenomena seen in adult metazoans, as well as their underlying mechanistic bases, are still far from being comprehensively understood. Reviewing both ultrastructural and ...

State Key Laboratory of Nutrient Use and Management, Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, National Academy of Agriculture ...