To mark David Attenborough turning 100, New Scientist staff have been set a tricky task: pick your favourite of his many ...

Tsuga canadensis, the Eastern hemlock, was one of the dominant trees in our state’s forests. When our first settlers arrived, ...

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The red on the thermometer crept past 30°C. In Chiang Mai, temperatures remain volatile, chilly in the morning and sweltering by afternoon. I was in an air-conditioned restaurant and had a bowl of ...

In these striking still lifes, Karol Palczak transforms ordinary fruit and objects into unsettling images of decay, stripping ...

The Acacia cyclops (also known as red-eyed wattle) is named for its distinctive, shiny seeds with a bright crimson iris that ...

Let all of them grow and in a couple of years, your entire yard literally becomes a forest of Chinese flame trees." Why not?

A millenia-old purification technique could be the cure for Europe’s microplastic-riddled drinking water. In a recent study, seeds from the ‘miracle’ moringa tree were found to match or outperform ...