"These samples are the reason why our mission was flown." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Vital samples from a dried up lakebed ...

The clock is ticking for roughly 3 million biological samples preserved as part of a series of long-term health studies, many of which are housed in high-powered bio-freezers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan ...

When Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova was detained at Logan Airport in February and charged with bringing frog embryos into the country for research purposes without declaring them to customs, it ...

Far from brown dirt, the Australian National Soil Archive houses 100,000 soil samples — some a century old — that represent a slice through time of the ground beneath our feet.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023. While ...