Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone.

Engineers and biologists at Dartmouth College have found that, just like word order affects meaning in a sentence, the ...

Scientists at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and VIVES University College have developed a new method to ...

While rare, a few birds we studied were rule-breakers. One such rule-breaker is the Eurasian spoonbill, whose highly ...

The human brain is thought to constantly predict future words during language processing. Recently, a new approach to investigating linguistic predictions emerged which aims to capture predictive ...

As the Washington, D.C. cherry blossoms reached their peak for 2025, trees around New York and New Jersey were starting to bloom. Some flowers have already been spotted in Central Park ...

Donald Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs have caused chaos, up-ending stock markets and sending world leaders scrambling. According to the Trump administration, more than 70 countries are ...

Many of those people were impacted themselves. They had trees fall on their houses, on their cars. Their properties were littered with debris and trees. But it was really amazing what they did to ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. I was faced with a modern iteration of Karna’s chariot-stuck-in-the-ground curse, which one likes to call: the app-based transportation curse ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued Raul Lambino a show-cause order after the lawyer and ally of former President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed that the high court had ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Georgia father and son who sought refuge under a tree during a storm Sunday evening were killed when the tree fell on their golf cart, according to officials. Matthew Terrell Collins Sr., ...