Scientists and teachers are using funding delays for Oregon State University's PacWave project to spark a sense of curiosity ...

‘Like grabbing a package of soup’ Researchers captured the sediment sample on a field expedition in December 2018. They cleanly bored a hole through over 3,500 feet of ice over Mercer Subglacial Lake ...

James Cameron’s descent to the Challenger Deep – we have adventure, intrigue, and a great story for the media. But we also have an amazing opportunity for SCIENCE! Despite a faulty hydraulics ...

The primary categories of soil and sediment analysis consist of hydrology and geology studies. In hydrology studies, the analysis of sediments offers significant data for plate tectonics and ...

The Memorandum encourages Regions, states, tribes, and/or other federal agencies to use the site-specific Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) at appropriate contaminated sediment sites. The Memorandum ...

In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...

Nitrogen is a critical building block for marine algae, yet the plankton in the Southern Ocean north of Antarctica leave much of it unused partly because they lack another needed nutrient, iron. The ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were infected by three types of intestinal parasite—roundworm, whipworm, and ...