Federal, state and local agencies have reached consensus on the first validated national standard for collecting, packaging and transporting samples of visible powders that are suspected of being ...

Daniel McDonald and Jack Gilbert (both University of California, San Diego; CA, USA) discuss the challenges faced during fecal sample collection and highlight important factors to consider when ...

Update: OSIRIS-REx made contact with the surface on schedule, executed the sample-collection procedure, and fired its back-away thrusters. The “spacecraft did everything it was supposed to do,” ...

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing an alleged theft of gold at the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple started sample collection for scientific analysis here on Thursday, police sources said. The team, ...