Those are years under your fingers. Every spring in much of the world, the cells under a tree’s bark wake up and start to divide. This forms a visible ring marking each year of the organism’s ...

And the tree ring building is round ... "It's chamber music, so we do everything by mind-reading, body language, reading each other, all of that," Fraker said. "It's not just the trees.

The longer, warmer days of spring spark phenological changes in trees, from root to tip. As the limbs of trees stretch and twist toward the sky in search of sun, ...

Having done that, I cannot resist counting tree rings and reading the story of their life’s fortunes. Tree ring analysis is valuable in a number of different venues besides dating archaeological ...

Now, tree rings have shed light on a longstanding mystery ... One violin made by Stradivari bears a label reading “Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis Alumnus Nicolaij Amati, Faciebat Anno 1666.” ...

Researchers rely on tree rings, glaciers, and fossil records to put our current climate in context. This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive ...

A study of tree rings in the Gaspesie's Sainte-Anne River area reveals that snowpacks have been declining noticeably in the region's mountains for nearly nine decades. The researchers say the ...

Earth was hit by the largest-ever detected solar storm 14,300 years ago, ancient tree rings reveal. If a storm of a similar magnitude hit our planet today, it could have potentially catastrophic ...

We analysed radioactive signatures left in tree rings around the world to study mysterious “radiation storms” that have swept over Earth half a dozen times in the past 10,000 years or so.