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 ...
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 ...
Decades-old air samples once collected for military surveillance have turned out to be an accidental time capsule of climate change. By extracting DNA from those vials, scientists have reconstructed ...