RIVERSIDE, California, Sept. 24 (TNSGra) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate change -- by studying rock-eating bacteria and fungi. These microbes break apart chemical bonds in deep underground layers of rocks, then die and release nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus into the soil. Aside from fertilizer, this is the main way soil obtains t  more

BOULDER, Colorado, Sept. 24 (TNSJou) -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus issued the following news on Sept. 23: During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature's most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony. "This is the most beautiful biological phenomenon that I've ever witnessed," said Orit Peleg, an assistant professor in th  more