New insights into tree biology may be the start of a revolution in the maple syrup industry. At first, University of Vermont researchers Tim Perkins and Abby van den Berg were just trying to learn ...

Penn State Extension will offer the “Arborist Short Course,” a series of 10 webinars intended to strengthen arborist skills with training in tree biology, care and risk management while preparing ...

Tree thinking is a pedagogical approach that emphasises the interpretation and construction of phylogenetic trees to elucidate evolutionary relationships. In the context of evolutionary biology ...

It has been well over a month since Hurricane Sandy, and we still hear the buzzing roars of chain-saws in backyards, along streets and utility right-of-ways. Massive uprooted trees, heavy fallen limbs ...

Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer ...

In a February meeting with members of the science faculty, Associate Provost for Science & Technology James Slattery presented tentative plans for the new Yale Biology Building, a multifunctional ...

Acorns come from oak trees, and their production varies year over year and per location. Oak trees in one area and climate might be considered a bumper crop, meaning they produce an especially large ...

Tammy Long got an idea of what science was all about when she went to Costa Rica as a college student. "My instructors basically said, 'There's the rainforest. Go find something that you'd be ...