Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Fishlake National Forest's Pando, touted as the world's largest tree, is at the center of a new online documentary, as ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented ... fragmented tracts of land or larger, continuous landscapes. The study, published in Nature and led by U-M ...

Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding ...

Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?

Ultimately, happiness isn’t always measured by how exciting your life is but by how content and fulfilled you feel within it. For extroverts, a busy social calendar might be the key to happiness ...

open image in gallery Experts fear that the deadly measles outbreak in West Texas could be much larger than reported ... Texas says that, due to the nature of the measles virus, additional ...

Paleobiology Professor Kenshu Shimada is leading a study alongside 28 experts. A new scientific study offers significant ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

Alternatively, if the megaberg is carrying a lot of mud and sediment, this could add nutrients to the water, providing more food for sea life. A23a is symbolic of a more global and far more ...

Biodiversity is the variation in living forms and can be measured in ways that include the number of species, functional variety of species, evenness of species distribution or genetic diversity ...

Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems. Finding ground states of quantum many-body systems is ...