Tag: Biogeochemistry

  • Nation & World

    To clean up the mine, let fungus reproduce

    Harvard-led researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Time travel in chalk

    Members of Professor Ann Pearson’s lab switched from science to art recently, decorating the slate panels outside the Hoffman Laboratory with depictions of three great eras in Earth’s history: the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Surrendering their secrets

    Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.

    4 minutes