Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. (William Brune) For the first ...

A twister was seen damaging the Three Rivers area, including ripping the roof off a Menards store and pulling apart a storage unit.

Owls do not need a fancy yard, but they do need a yard that feels safe enough to nap unseen between hunts. Many yards look perfect to people and completely wrong to a predator that survives by staying ...

What will you be doing this weekend around the Jersey Shore? Lines on the Pines, a half-marathon, Matthew Morrison in concert and more.

Scientists settle a major evolutionary mystery as new research reveals the comb jelly, not the sea sponge, was the first animal to branch off on Earth © 600-Million ...

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

All animals on Earth share a common ancestor. Trace back the history of any creature from humans to slugs, and you’ll eventually be able to follow all of the branches on the animal tree of life back ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Optimizing tree architecture is a long-standing challenge in fruit production, as branch orientation directly affects light interception, labor requirements, and yield efficiency. This study shows ...

Abstract: Over the last decade, a number of techniques for individual tree segmentation has been developed for terrestrial laser scanning data. The superpoint segmentation algorithm based on point ...

Gift-giving and spending quality time with family and friends are hallmarks of the holiday season but it’s also important to make the season greener, especially when it comes to the holiday aftermath.