Did you hear what happened to the wooden car with wooden wheels and a wooden engine? It wooden go. Wood, at least from ash trees, is in excess supply since emerald ash borers have killed hundreds of ...

A monkey descending a tree trunk often keeps its head up, moving almost like a cautious climber backing down a ladder. Squirrels and many other mammals, by contrast, tend to go headfirst.

Chris is a writer and editor with over 10 years of experience covering games and has a bachelor's degree in History from the University of Central Lancashire. He's mainly focused on guides, but has ...

Joseph Hennager and his wife, Julia are the proud owners of the Iowa City Reading Tree. They have lived in Iowa City for over 40 years and currently reside in a tall, gray house with a screened-in ...

Researchers Gregory Goldman, Gregory Fournier, and Betul Kacar have identified a rare class of ancient gene families, called universal paralogs, that appear to have duplicated before the last ...

You probably aren’t watering or pruning the 75-foot oak or maple in the front yard, but mature trees aren’t maintenance free. By Sal Vaglica Homeowners who plant trees know how crucial care is during ...

In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus range from species that prefer humans to species that favor other primates, such as gibbons and orangutans. By sequencing DNA from 11 mosquito ...

Ancient plant viruses infecting modern crops likely evolved in wild plants before the last Ice Age and later spread across continents.

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity. Each Harvard University freshman in the “Tree” seminar must choose a single ...

Among the strangest branches of the dinosaur family tree are the alvarezsauroids, small, bird‑like theropods that lived from the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. They don’t fit the image of sharp‑toothed ...

Dollar Tree is turning over a new, slightly more luxurious leaf. The discount retailer is opening up shop in more affluent neighborhoods in an effort to draw out the nation’s biggest spenders. Nearly ...

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing in Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland found that the trees' above- and below-ground ...