For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Whether weathering is an acceptable term or not ... research is showing that it is also the biological impact of strain and the result of something called telomere shortening.

During biological weathering, rocks are broken up by the roots of plants. They can also be broken by animals burrowing into them. Another process of the rock cycle is erosion. Erosion is the ...