Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

Make a dress form Christmas tree using your sewing dress form. Add garlands to an embroidery hoop and ornaments to reuse it year after year. I’ve always admired mannequin christmas trees from afar, ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Trees take on myriad forms — Krishna holds aloft the Govardhan hill, Christ’s Last Supper, and Shiva as Nataraja, for instance – in National Award-winning artist Ompal Sansanwal’s ...

Now the former stillwater superstar and five time Olympic gold medallist has been involved in another as he launched his campaign for a debut Sydney to Hobart aboard the Sydney 100-footer LawConnect.

From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The tradition of using evergreen trees and plants for winter celebrations predates Christianity. Ancient cultures like the Romans, Egyptians, and Celts used evergreens to symbolize life and the ...