Sandy soil is lightweight, well-draining, and low in nutrients. It is best for root vegetables like carrots and potatoes. Regular watering is essential. Clay soil is heavy and nutrient-dense, with ...

The clay gave the soil both its resilience and fertility. But where had it gone? Rewind 10 years to the building of the Aswan Dam across the Nile in southern Egypt during the 1960s. This ...

A special mud gets rubbed on every baseball before every MLB game to make them less slippery. A new study explains the ...

Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...