Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Waiting a century for an oak to create shade in your yard is hard. However, the negative aspects of fast-growing trees make ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

This article is a summary of Roy Ratcliffe’s recently released book ‘Life on Earth’ (Past, Present and Future)’. Of all the millions of species of life that have existed on earth over billions of ...

Missouri hides its treasures in plain sight, and Washington State Park in De Soto might be the crown jewel you’ve been driving past for years.

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Expect sunny skies. The high will be -5°. Pressure is the weight of the air in the atmosphere. It is normalized to the standard atmospheric pressure of 1,013.25 mb (29.9212 inHg). Higher pressure is ...