A small fern with a big secret enters the Guinness Book of Records
Tmesipteris oblancolata is an obscure species of fork fern found in New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific.…
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Column: In the land of the giant sequoias, the world's largest tree gets a checkup
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK — Around the time of the Han Dynasty and just before the beginning of the Roman Empire,…
Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, study says
An extreme summer marked by deadly heat waves, explosive wildfires and record-breaking ocean temperatures will rank among the hottest in…
Scientists debate the possibility of adding a category 6 to megahurricanes
In 1973, the National Hurricane Center introduced the Saffir-Simpson scale, a five-category rating system that classified hurricanes based on wind…
T. Rex was not as intelligent as primates, according to a new study
In December 2022, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel published a paper which caused a big stir in the world of…
'3 Body Problem' review: A new take on alien invasions
Cixin Liu’s “The Three-Body Problem,” the first volume of her “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy, has been turned into a…
Opinion: Mars rocks are a scientific prize the United States can't afford to lose
NASA does it difficult, inspiring and ambitious things, and he does them, In the immortal words of President Kennedy, because…