Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...

In collaboration with partner institutions, a team of scientists from Florida Atlantic University investigated 95 specimens ...

A ninth-grade Summerside Intermediate School science club got to spend a recent school day outside instead of in the ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Conducted by ecologists in the University’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources, the study suggests ...

Two recently discovered ancient gold rings set with garnets reveal how Greek trends and customs became part of life in ...

Scientists have identified the most powerful solar storm ever recorded, an extreme event that struck Earth around 12,350 BC, ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

That mercury also finds its way into trees, according to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science last week. Tracking the mercury content in tree rings, the research ...

Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic ... and published April 8 in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. Computer models suggest that atmospheric mercury can ...

New research published by a University of Arizona-led team might have cooled a decades-long debate as to the date of the explosion through the use of an unlikely tool — tree rings.

Amy Hessl, professor of geography at WVU, is leading a project funded by the National Science Foundation. Severe space weather can leave a mark in tree rings, and a West Virginia University ...