Apr. 17, 2025 — A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme ...

Managing a city-wide drug operation in Schedule 1 is hard, but luckily, you don't have to do everything by yourself. You can ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, a Potawatomi botanist, author, and MacArthur Fellow, is leading a transformative movement that bridges Indigenous wisdom with Western science to address some of the planet's most ...

Jutta Papenbrock, a professor at the Institute for Botany at Leibniz University Hanover, says there are ways to at least reduce the flow of teardrops. Just what is it about onions and our eyes?

“There’s a lot to learn with this species so they’re really just getting started,” said Carolyn Whiting, a Big Bend botanist. Scientists are hopeful the flowers will bloom again after rain fell on the ...

A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers ...

(C. Hoyt/NPS Photo via AP) This photo taken on April 20, 2024, at Big Bend National Park in Texas shows botanist Carolyn Whiting viewing the wooly devil flower, by then withering, on her phone. (C.

New space satellites can see through forest canopies to track carbon storage, forest growth, and climate patterns.

During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the Grainger Science Hub. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care ...

“There’s a lot to learn with this species so they’re really just getting started,” said Carolyn Whiting, a Big Bend botanist. Scientists are hopeful the flowers will bloom again after rain ...

On the occasion of the 286th anniversary of the birth of Domenico Cirillo (April 10, 1739), a doctor, botanist, and patriot ...

Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. “The Fate of the Day,” the second volume in his ...