More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

Urate crystals alone are required but not sufficient to trigger gout flares; they can also be modulated by environmental, metabolic, genetic and epigenetic factors. Avoiding large variation in ...

India, with its rich spiritual heritage, is home to some of the world’s most ancient monasteries which are steeped in history. These monasteries are set in remote mountains, desert valleys, and ...

An ancient bristlecone pine hidden in California’s White Mountains may be the oldest living tree on Earth—and its story stretches back nearly 5,000 years. Edmund Schulman preparing to take an ...

This data is now part of the Open Tree of Life (OpenTree) project—a collaboration between evolutionary biologists and taxonomists which aims to construct the evolutionary history of all known ...

Mount Etna’s Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses is believed to be 2,000 to 4,000 years old. The Senator, a U.S. pond cypress, lived 3,500 years before it was lost to fire in 2012.

This was an “act of God.” However, if the tree was diseased or in a dangerous condition before the disaster, you can hold them liable for damages. The neighbor was negligent in maintaining the ...

We are so busy living that we are oblivious to life. Looking at trees, one wonders whether a tree would be aware of its roots; its source of life. Let aside trees, but is even a human aware of his ...

Throughout the month of April, Columbia residents observe Arbor Day — the conservation holiday that encourages planting trees — with tree seedlings given out in fourth grade classrooms and at ...

The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ancient metabolic process in their laboratory. Most likely, the earliest ...

Mobile phone footage of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree being felled has been played at the trial of the two men accused of carrying out the "moronic mission". Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers ...

A woman in her 30s has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after a large tree branch fell on a Toronto street on Tuesday, striking her and a child, police say. The branch fell in the ...