A casual stroll on the beach can leave enough intact DNA behind to extract identifiable information. Comezora/Moment via Getty Images Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and ...
Decades-old air samples once collected for military surveillance have turned out to be an accidental time capsule of climate ...
Through DNA analysis of old air samples collected by the Swedish Armed Forces, researchers at Lund University in Sweden can show that spore dispersal of northern mosses has shifted over the past 35 ...
Scientists have shown that it's possible to assess what organisms might be living in a particular habitat by collecting samples and looking for so-called environmental DNA (eDNA). Organisms shed their ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that air pollution is of great concern and impacts health in many ways. To better the situation, it’s necessary to focus on air quality. However, when ...
Most of us spend about 90 percent of our time indoors, so the quality of the air we breathe is important. Concerns about health issues, most commonly allergic reactions from inhaling fungal spores, ...
Jessica Alice Farrell received funding from the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center d/b/a Friends of Gumbo Limbo (a 501c3 non-profit organization) through a generous donation through their Graduate Research ...