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Existing pedotransfer functions cannot reveal which soil properties control water retention at different soil moisture states Direct prediction with attention mechanisms achieves superior accurac...

The Trump administration is squeezing struggling Americans with benefit cuts, but ordinary people are stepping up to help.

Higher education faces a dual crisis: an accelerating climate emergency and declining public trust. While there is a deep foundation for education and research addressing the climate crisis across aca...

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

Abstract. Paleosols formed by the burial of topsoil during landscape evolution can sequester substantial amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC) over millennia due to protection from surface disturbances...

The University of California Board of Regents today approved the appointment of James B. Milliken as the 22nd president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, six academic health centers, and t...

Soil science's identity emerges from studying Earth's complex living and nonliving systems across scales. Defining soil science requires balancing practical impacts with fundamental scientific explo.....

With a service before 10,000 people, Francis seeks to call attention to a humanitarian problem at what has become a gateway for thousands of migrants.

If we are to take seriously the threats of drought, climate change and water security, we should not reduce this place to a warring of two — or even many — sides.

Database shows that researchers with retracted papers had higher self-citation rates and published more than those without retractions.

“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption,” he said in his 1979 “Crisis of Confidence” speech. If only we had listened.

AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, are being increasingly used by students in higher education institutions. While these tools provide opportunities f...

Motivated by the demand to sustainably provide for a growing world population, we study the physical underpinnings that make soils habitable environments.

Through their effects on soil hydraulic properties, soil texture and sand content are shown to have broad implications for the terrestrial water cycle and carbon sink, and specific implicati...

Machine learning (ML) applications in soil science have significantly increased over the past two decades, reflecting a growing trend towards data-dri…