Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the ...

Researchers have captured the first real-world evidence of tiny electrical flashes glowing from treetops during thunderstorms ...

Science taught me something today. Tree frogs might be the best athletes on the planet, pound for pound. Look. I know that sounds stupid. They can't windmill a basketball at 40 years old like LeBron ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tree branches in art throughout history follow geometric rules related to fractal geometry. 'Almond blossom' by Vincent van Gogh.

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When you hear the words “greenhouse gas,” your mind probably goes to carbon dioxide, the concentration of which has been steadily rising worldwide, leading to a feedback loop of absorbing and trapping ...

In a city with 2.8 million trees, 92 have become the latest front in the fight between North Baltimore residents and the Johns Hopkins University over the construction of the school’s Data Science and ...

Cashews are a botanical and industrial paradox: a seed encased in a toxic shell, suspended beneath a fleshy pseudofruit, and ...

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Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...