This isn’t any conspiracy theory or pseudoscience: Using samples collected from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Hausrath ...

COIMBATORE: Following farmers’ demand, the state agricultural department has allocated a mobile soil testing unit to Coimbatore. V Krishnaveni, joint director of the Agricultural Department, told TNIE ...

Once scientists have collected an eDNA sample, they analyze it via bar coding, which can either look for a single species or ...

Lab Spotlight” is a biweekly column that highlights UW centers, institutions, and labs that are assets to their respective ...

In the wake of the Eaton and Palisades fires, Army Corps officials are saying that excavating six inches of topsoil is enough ...

Florida has as many as 240 ghost towns, but there's one that formed during the Civil War era that's recently been getting renewed attention after laying abandoned for decades. The remnants of ...

Take a handful of soil from various locations in your garden. Wet each soil sample gradually and work it in your hand until it forms a ball. The moisture content should be just drier than the point at ...

Farmers in Middle Georgia use free biosolids from the Macon Water Authority as fertilizer, but the EPA warns this practice may pose health and environmental risks.

Sampling was conducted as follows: Oxisol samples were collected three times using a soil core sampler (5 cm diameter) as the mesocosm system sediment, whereas Entisol samples were collected five ...

In an update released Jan. 31, the university said it has completed soil boring and sampling and remaining assessment work is now limited to land surveying to confirm the property's boundaries, which ...

92.5–97.5 cm soil layers. Undisturbed soil samples (used to measure the water-stable aggregate content) and disturbed soil samples (used to measure soil organic carbon) were collected sequentially ...

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.