Conifers, such as pines, spruces, and firs, produce sticky resins that protect the trees from insects and pathogens.

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

These plants again went into oblivion on the island, due to another eruption. Nishinoshima is an island in the Pacific, located around 620 miles south of the Japanese capital Tokyo, according to ...

Rooting tip cuttings from parent plants is a way to produce new plants that are copies of the parent. It's fairly easy to do ...

Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Researchers identified a new *Streptomyces* bacteria, *S. colwelliae*, from alder tree roots. Genetic analysis confirmed it’s ...