How many times have you looked at a yield map and wondered why one part of a field outyielded another? The answer might be a difference in soil health. New tools make it easier to give your soil a ...

The ants tend to dig relatively straight tunnels that descend at the angle of repose – the slope at which a granular material naturally forms mounds – which was around 40 degrees in this case.

Sacha Mooney, Professor in Soil Physics at the University of Nottingham added, "This new approach can be applied to all soils and moves us closer to an interdisciplinary understanding of the ...

SOIL physics, although a science having but few devotees, has grown up in two separate divisions, one dealing with soil as a habitat for plants and the other for large public buildings and roads, etc.

His first book, The Mechanics of Earth Construction Based on Soil Physics, was issued in 1924. ENR first published a paper by Terzaghi in 1920. At that time, ...

Soil and water scientist Dani Or, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, has joined the University of Nevada, Reno College of Engineering. Or is known for his contributions coupling soil ...

Our department offers the master of science and the doctor of philosophy degrees in plant and soil sciences. Within the Plant and Soil Sciences degree, two focused concentration areas exist: Plant ...

Since soil is at the heart of the matter, we ought to know what shape it's in. A simple and inexpensive soil test is the garden equivalent of a physical checkup.

While soil liquefaction can be a devastating effect of an earthquake, it can have useful applications. Civil engineers deliberately induce liquefaction to improve soil quality before construction and ...

Soil is, counterintuitively, at its most absorbent when it’s a little bit damp. “When it’s really dry and when it’s really wet it’s actually difficult to get water into the soil ...