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Mystery of the 'Crooked Forest'
10-12-2011 |
16
A mysterious forest in north-west Poland has visitors perplexed due to its strangely curved trees.
Researchers design "faux trees"
3-14-2011 | 17
To help solve the problem of poor air quality in big cities researchers have developed artificial trees.
Humans left trees 4.2 million years ago
2-11-2011 | 8
It is thought that our distant ancestors started walking on the ground up to 4.2 million years ago.
Roman rise and fall 'recorded in trees'
1-19-2011 | 5
Scientists link changes in our climate with the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history.
Can we find trees on other planets ?
1-4-2011 | 9
Two scientists have come up with a method to detect forests on extrasolar worlds.
Reindeer help Christmas trees grow
12-25-2010 | 1
New studies have shown that reindeer directly benefit the scotch pine and other trees sold at Christmas.
Street lamps replaced with glowing trees ?
11-2-2010 | 4
Taiwanese researchers are working on a way to replace street lamps with glow-in-the-dark trees.
Lab monkeys make their escape
7-8-2010 | 16
Lab monkeys in Japan succeeded in catapulting themselves from trees in order to escape over an electric fence.
New tribe discovered in Papua New Guinea
6-29-2010 | 31
A new tribe of hunter gatherers who live in trees has been discovered in the Papua New Guinea.
Biotechnology could grow plastic on trees
6-12-2010 | 9
Advances in biotechnology and engineering could one day produce plastic that can grow on trees.
Mystery of the 400-million-year-old "trees"
2-18-2010 | 8
Mystery has long surrounded giant fossils known as protoaxites that resemble tree trunks but are from before trees existed.
Its official: beetles don't like heavy metal music
2-11-2010 | 16
In an attempt to stop beetles from destroying trees researchers tried playing heavy metal music and other sounds to disrupt them.
Feathered dinosaurs leapt from trees
1-26-2010 | 3
New evidence suggests that early feathered dinosaurs would have taken to flight from trees rather than from the ground.
NASA photographs "trees" on Mars
1-14-2010 | 80
These tree-like shapes aren't actually trees at all but sand dunes coated in a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide.
Christmas trees show up with live 'ornaments'
12-21-2009 | 18
Colored balls and tinsel might be regular adornments for Christmas trees this festive season but residents in Anchorage ...
Bipedal humans descended from trees
8-12-2009 | 7
Examinations of bones from several primate species have challenged the idea that modern humans evolved from knuckle-walk...
101 years on Tunguska blast still a mystery
7-27-2009 | 15
101 years ago a huge explosion occured over Tunguska, the blast causing devastation over 2,000 square kilometers and des...
Virgin Mary 'appears in tree stump'
7-10-2009 | 33
A tree stump in Ireland has attracted thousands of people to a rural churchyard when workmen cutting down trees came acr...
Did deforestation destroy the Maya ?
4-22-2009 | 1
A new theory proposed as a result of research conducted via satellite has suggested that the Maya could have been devast...
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