Students from Wayne County FFA chapters are heading to state after testing soil for farming and land development.

Fort Bragg is starting to test soil samples in residential areas with homes built before 1978 to determine if dangerous ...

As fall settles in and temperatures start to drop, safeguarding fruit trees from frost becomes an essential responsibility ...

Former EPA officials express concerns that polluters may exploit the situation with an agency that has already seen massive ...

Avoid testing near pavement, buildings, or other heat sources that create artificial temperature variations. These microclimates don't represent the broader lawn conditions where you'll be planting ...

To help gardeners determine how much—and how often—to water, we tested some of the top soil moisture meters on the market. Find out which ones scored the highest in our hands-on tests.

Fully automating the production of electric motors and making an important contribution to quality assurance: these are the goals of the new “MotorInspector” research project. In this project, IPH – ...

A group of surgeons has proposed measuring how often hospitals discharge post-surgical patients to nursing homes as a way to rate quality. The goal would be to reduce post-acute admissions and save ...

Industrial agriculture is profitable, but recent trends show that profit may only last in the short run if soil health isn’t prioritized. Farmers in the central US in the 1930s learned the hard way.

The real “pain point” for providers should be inadequate systems, not quality oversight. I’m referring to Kimberly Marselas’ recent article that portrays the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ ...

The spatial distribution of selected International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) stations (red-filled circles) used in this study across different Land Use and Land Cover(LULC) classifications.