Samples collected at daring heights provide evidence for an untested theory of tree drought adaptation, while countering ...

The scientist is Neil deGrasse Tyson, and in the United States he is probably the most recognised face of science alive today ...

The giant trees of tropical forests are important allies in the fight against climate change because of their ability to ...

On May 6, 1968, more than a year before Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong climbed into the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle, a ...

Tree cores pulled from some of the planet’s oldest trees have helped extend records of past weather.

An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have confirmed Taiwan’s tallest known tree: an 84.1-meter (276-foot) Taiwania fir they named “the Heaven Sword of the Da’an River.” A ...

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

Determined researchers have found East Asia’s tallest known tree in a secluded valley near one of Taiwan’s longest rivers. The team named the massive fir tree “Heaven Sword of the Da’an River” — a nod ...

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type ...

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His instinct was to be skeptical. He was nearly certain the video was another fake. He chewed on his pencil and watched it again, slowing down the video, breaking it apart frame by frame. The camera ...