Destructive sampling is a research method that involves intentionally altering or damaging a specimen to address specific scientific questions. Because this process is irreversible, the University of ...

An Austrian-American research team (University of Vienna, Department Evolutionary Anthropology and Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics), in collaboration of Hungarian experts from Eötvös ...

Please read the following guidelines before requesting a destructive sampling loan. Permission must be granted to perform any type of destructive or invasive sampling on UCM specimens. The term ...

Despite legislation to protect natural sites, rock outcrops are being damaged in the name of science. Scientists, funders and publishers must push forward a stronger code of ethics. Rock coring is a ...

Scientists designed a new, non-destructive method for estimated leaf area index (LAI) in vegetable crops. The experiments analyzed digital images obtained with a commercial camera with open-source ...

How do you find out the age of ancient rock art? And more importantly, how can you do that without disturbing the site? Meinrat and Tracey Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry recently ...

In a recent study published in the Nature Journal, researchers described a new method to safely release deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) trapped inside the ancient tooth and bone artifacts, which was used ...

Researchers have developed one of the first non-destructive methods of extracting multiple samples from a cell over time. At any given moment, a variety of dynamic processes occur inside a cell, with ...