Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more ...

Ice Core Data Help Solve a Global Warming Mystery Why do some ice core samples seem to indicate CO2 spikes trailed increases in global temperature? It’s all about the way bubbles move in ice ...

NASA is celebrating confirmation via data it received from its Perseverance Rover that indicates it has completed the collection of its first rock core sample on Mars. Data was received from the ...

A sediment core taken from the East African lake, Lake Malawi. Pollen data were obtained from this sample.

Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project.

This sample, which is more than six times longer than the previous core of mantle rock, has given us a glimpse into the composition of this mostly inaccessible layer of the Earth.