Riddle me this, says botanist Turner Collins: If you hung a horseshoe on a tree limb 6 feet above the ground when you were a child, and came back years later as an adult, how far would the horseshoe ...

What do a tree and the Eiffel Tower have in common? According to a Duke University engineer, both are optimized for flow. In the case of trees, the flow is of water from the ground throughout the ...

It is hard to say exactly how these events were linked, but the connection in terms of time and place is remarkable," Hellström says. In previous research, the histories of evolutionary theory and of ...

A new study led by a researcher of the Oranim Campus of the University of Haifa, published in the prestigious journal Nature, has found that in conditions of high soil humidity the chances of survival ...