A research team led by Prof. Li Yang and Dr. Guo Zhuang from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) conducted in-situ electron microanalysis of spherical iron-sulfide ...

Magnetite, the most magnetic mineral on Earth, is increasingly being found in seafloor environments that are rich in iron and have high methane flux. But how it forms in such settings—whether by ...

The formation of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago through the collapse of a cold molecular cloud was accompanied by many processes, including the evaporation and condensation of cosmic grains, ...

A research group led by Professor Michiko Nemoto at Graduate School of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology at Okayama University has made a new discovery involving the mechanism by ...

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are phylogenetically and morphologically diverse prokaryotes that share an ancestral capability of producing intracellular magnetite (Fe 3 O 4) or/and greigite (Fe 3 S 4) ...