Soil scientist Andrew Margenot holds a jar of soil gathered from Menard County, Illinois in 1948. The University of Illinois professor said he rediscovered the "church of soil" when searching an old ...

Decades-old air samples once collected for military surveillance have turned out to be an accidental time capsule of climate ...

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over ...

Test tubes containing blood samples. New research using decades old astronaut blood samples reveals potential biomarkers for space flight health risks. A new study using blood samples taken from ...

Laura Sanchez’s great-great-great grandmother collected seaweed in a scrapbook, now considered one of the earliest collections in California. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom It’s not something one admires ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery on a river bank in Zambia, a discovery that may change how ancient human history is viewed forever. A new study published in the scientific journal ...

NASA scientists have started to study 50-year-old samples of the moon's surface that were collected during the agency's final crewed moon landing mission, Apollo 17. In March of this year, scientists ...