The growth rings are visible in tree trunk cross sections, and are formed in seasonal environments as the wood is laid down faster in summer than winter. In years with better growing conditions ...

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As their limbs stretch and twist ...

And the key to this discovery lies with tree rings. In 2010, excavators in New York's Lower Manhattan discovered buried deep in the ground the remains of a wooden ship and—according to a new ...

Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside old wood. Originally developed for climate science ...

Panyushkina and her team used surgical knives to dissect individual tree rings from ancient wood samples, including samples from dead trees buried in riverbanks and timbers excavated during ...

Now, tree rings have shed light on a longstanding mystery in the rarefied world of multimillion-dollar musical instruments. By analyzing the wood of two 17th-century stringed instruments ...

More tree ring data would help improve the team’s model, Pope said. Being able to analyze the rings from Tasmanian huon and kauri wood from New Zealand, locked away in bogs, as well as Japanese ...

And of those, 45 of 58 are in Europe. To look further back in time and across a broader area, they relied on tree rings from the wood archives of archaeologists. The cross section of a tree can ...