The National Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, holds 13.67 miles of ice cores preserved at -40 degrees Fahrenheit year ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, have donated seeds of a gingko tree that endured the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to a botanical garden at the University of Oslo. Hibakusha from ...

Plant collections are full of surprises. It may take decades to id plant samples, but it’s worth the effort, especially when ...

When the $3.9 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project is complete, a reservoir and wetland will store and ...

In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous ...

“It’s inherently incredibly cool,” said Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota. “If we made a mirror cell, we would have made a second tree of life.” Aside ...

Fungus-farming ants, fossilized footprints and a prehistoric critter named after a Muppet are just a few of the year’s most ...

Alonso, of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, and Ernesto Campos, research technician at the Smithsonian Tropical Research ...

New research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than ...

were a type of kefir cheese — making this the oldest-known intact cheese sample in the world. Another decade later, genetic analysis has revealed how it was made. It turns out that the recipe ...

Alonso, of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid, and Ernesto Campos, research technician at the Smithsonian Tropical ...

"In 2022, Fernández-Alonso contributed to confirming the identification of another tree, Matisia tinamastiana ... of the collections of herbaria at the University of Panama (PMA), Summit Canal ...