Dear Dr. Dirt: There are very low-growing clumps of ... It creeps along the ground, well under the range of the lawn mower blade. After flowering, tiny, heart-shaped seed capsules develop and ...

SCOOP: There's A Dirt Shortage : Short Wave Mud and dirt have often been treated as waste products from excavation or dredging sites. But these days, coastal communities need massive amounts of ...

It was just a scoop of dirt, but NASA scientists applauded more loudly than they had since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Collecting and analyzing the first Martian soil sample is a “huge ...

One of the most amazing pieces of technology to emerge from Lockheed Martin’s laboratories is a simple circular canister designed to hold nothing more that dirt, gravel and maybe some dust.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will resume working with its first scoop of Red Planet dirt today (Oct. 10) after taking a few days off to study an odd scrap of detritus on the ground, NASA officials ...