We have a natural fascination with time – how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, how the stars traverse the sky each night. Scientists probe the layers ...

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Astronomical data hidden in cedars and pines reflects a handful of potentially devastating events, and suggests we may be overdue for the next one. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

TUCSON — When Bryan Black accepted a post-doctoral research position at Oregon State University to study how fish grow, he hoped to apply his background in forest ecology to marine life. Black, a ...

A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event. A team led by Dr Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

Michael Worthington of the Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory uses a drill to take a core sample from a wooden barn at Cremona Farm in Mechanicsville, Md. By studying the rings, Worthington can estimate when ...