Last month, in a basement office in Monrovia, I watched a teacher with 15 years of experience fail a sixth-grade math test. She wasn’t an outlier—she represented the norm in a nation that ranks 155th ...

The primary functions of roots are to anchor the tree to the ground, store carbohydrates, absorb water and nutrients, and conduct those nutrients to the vascular system of the tree. Having healthy ...

It’s said that a wild fig tree can have a roots system of up to 400 feet. That’s a lot – but it’s not as expansive as what Craig Edwards explores in his regular Roots Music Stomp concerts ...

With its remarkable size and age, Pando dwarfs its fellow inhabitants, holding the potential to be not only the oldest living ...

Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage.

Destructive winds during storms and cyclones often cause tree failures, especially through uprooting and stem breakage.

This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...

Tree anchorage against wind connects to the characteristics of the root-soil plate, which can be observed during the tree-pulling experiments. This study explores the mechanism behind trees responding ...

Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center and Basser Center for BRCA, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States ...

With Southern New England facing yet another red flag warning today, fire officials are urging residents to be extra vigilant and not to have open flames of any size outdoors on their property or ...

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