Infrared Fingerprinting Offers a Fast New Way to Weigh Carbonate Minerals
Researchers have developed calibration equations that let a simple ATR-FTIR spectrometer quantify strontianite and witherite in aragonite mixtures without sample ...
Tag: geochemistry
Freezing Soil May Lock Away Industrial Arsenic, Study Finds
A new Nature Water study shows that freeze–thaw cycles at ice–water interfaces rapidly convert freshly deposited industrial arsenic in soils ...
Blue Mineral Clues Reveal How a Stone Age Site Preserved Its Secrets
A study of the Mengxihe Palaeolithic site in Sichuan, China, shows that the iron phosphate mineral vivianite records the precise ...
Atomic Fingerprints in City Soil Reveal a Century of Industrial Pollution
Strontium isotope analysis of urban soils in Salgótarján, Hungary, has allowed scientists to quantify how coal ash from a former ...
Abandoned Gold Tailings Leave Toxic Legacy in South African Soils and Water
A comprehensive geochemical survey of the Welkom Goldfield reveals that abandoned gold mine tailings dams continue to contaminate surrounding soils ...
Scientists and Communities Join Forces to Rescue Lake Victoria’s Dying Shores
A series of multi-stakeholder workshops in Kisumu, Kenya, shows how sediment fingerprinting and participatory knowledge mobilization can translate geochemical data ...
AI Reads Ancient Granite Chemistry to Reconstruct Earth’s Tectonic Past
A machine learning framework trained on more than 13,000 granite samples classifies tectonic settings with 91 percent accuracy while SHAP ...
Lead-Treated Zeolite Traps Arsenic in Water by Growing a Rare Mineral
Researchers have shown that lead-loaded clinoptilolite zeolite can strip up to 99 percent of dissolved arsenate from water within an ...
AI Learns Geochemistry: New Explainable Model Targets Rare Earth Deposits
Researchers have developed EBGT, an explainable machine learning framework that embeds geochemical constraints into gradient-boosted trees to identify ion-adsorption rare ...
Phosphate Mining Leaves a Toxic Fingerprint in Soils Above a Famous Chinese Lake
A depth-resolved survey of a phosphate-mining watershed upstream of Dianchi Lake shows that tailings soils are the dominant contamination hotspot, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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