How trees secretly talk to each other Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the …
One Million British Botanical Treasures Will Be Digitized Artifacts in the sprawling collection include a Chilean potato plant collected by Charles Darwin and 18th-century lavender By Meilan Solly SMITHSONIAN.COM When …
Genes That Jump Between Species Could Rewrite Our Understanding of Evolution Horizontal movement of genetic material is widespread across animals, challenging traditional notions of inheritance Humans and other animals …
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images world wide flood How rising seas could cause your next internet outage By Greta Jochem You probably didn’t give much thought to how exactly …
Welcome to the Meghalayan Age, the Latest Stage in Earth’s 4.54-Billion-Year History Geologists say the stage began 4,200 years ago, when a global mega-drought devastated agricultural societies The Meghalayan …
In India, Summer Heat Could Soon Be Unbearable. Literally. By Somini Sengupta July 17, 2018 NEW DELHI — On a sweltering Wednesday in June, a rail-thin woman named Rehmati gripped …
Jane Goodall is a primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist. She is the first to have observed and reported that chimpanzees use tools for feeding, deeply transforming the human-animal relationships. Today, Jane …
