A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the ...

Whether your symptoms are mild or severe, one of the best ways to avoid pollen outside is to create a low-allergen garden — ...

More than half of Ireland's birds are in decline. Séan Ronayne hopes recording each bird's song on film might help encourage people to save them and the ecosystems they call home.

Two of the holiday season's superstars, Balsam Hill and Twinkly, teamed up to create a smart Christmas tree that left us ...

Christmas trees are usually evergreen conifers, such as fir ... A two-metre-tall artificial tree, in comparison, is estimated to produce about 40 kg of carbon dioxide, ten times more than a ...

Raised in the idyllic mountain town of Conifer, Colorado, Paul Schenck has spent the last decade and a half helping to form ...

Nestled within McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park, about 60 miles northeast of Redding, this natural wonder requires a bit of a journey to reach. The drive takes you through stretches of pine ...

The new startup, called Conifer, has developed its motor to be free of rare earth elements by using more abundant ferrite magnets, which the company says not only reduces cost but limits supply ...

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The results in primates strongly suggest “artificial nap” effects will translate to humans, says Sara Mednick, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, who studies the ...

Biologists worked with robot ... Artificial Muscle Flexes in Multiple Directions, Offering a Path to Soft, Wiggly Robots Mar. 17, 2025 — Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle ...