A recently published study describes a way to more accurately measure the CO2 uptake of trees over their entire lifetimes. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), scientists discovered isotopic ...

Fingerprints are unique to each person — even identical twins. No one else has the same fingerprints you do. The ridges on your fingers don’t change as you grow or get older. Even when you burn, cut ...

A “CHEMICAL fingerprint” left on the stump of the felled Sycamore Gap tree could hold the key to who cut it down. Forensic scientists are currently examining samples from the tree for traces from the ...

Heritage apple trees will sampled for their “DNA fingerprint” as part of a research project to recover lost varieties and help protect fruit against climate change. The Royal Horticultural Society ...

Legend has it that Hippocrates, the ancient Greek "father" of medicine, taught his students under a tree on the island of Kos. More than 25 centuries later, experts in the US have produced the first ...