Tree rings reveal how climate toppled Chinese dynasties
Trees are natural timekeepers, silently recording the passage of years in their rings, growth patterns, and changing foliage.
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago during the Jurassic Period and possessed surprisingly modern traits, a discovery ...
Art and science illuminate the same subtle proportions in tree branches
The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...
Ancient tree rings uncover climate's impact on Chinese dynastic history
A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...
Tibetan tree rings highlight link between climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties
Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns ...
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Hong Kong scientists fight to save fragrant incense trees
Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...