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A government agency is funding research into phytomining, in which plants are used to extract valuable metals from the soil through their roots.

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The UN nuclear watchdog chief will visit storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster for the first time this week. That is on top of the monster task ...

In May, scientists reported that they’d successfully grown plants in extraterrestrial soil for the first time. At the University of Florida’s Space Plants Lab in Gainesville, a dozen ...

Scientists may have come up with a smart way to make lunar soil more habitable for plants, allowing astronauts to grow their own food.