Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

Two 75-year-old ginkgo trees at California State Capitol Park in Sacramento are producing a foul odor and safety risks during their fall fruiting season. The female trees release berries containing ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

Twenty-five years ago, Toledo used municipal bonds to pay outside investors to create housing. Now the mayor has the same plan but wants to use the county land bank. Government shutdown live updates; ...

In Finland, an astonishing discovery is captivating the scientific community: Norway spruce trees appear to be producing gold, but not in the way one might imagine. Thanks to the action of invisible ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers has combined deep botanical knowledge with powerful genomic technology to decode and mine the DNA of non-flowering seed plants and uncover genes that evolved to ...