The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

1 Department of Cell Therapy and Applied Genomics, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan 2 Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Suffix trees ...

Tropical trees do more than absorb carbon — they cool the air, increase cloud cover, and resist fires, giving them far greater impact than trees planted elsewhere. Credit: Shutterstock Planting trees ...

Stanislav Roudavski has received relevant funding from the Australian Research Council. These trees play a crucial role in their ecosystems, providing habitat and contributing to the overall health of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Planting trees has often been seen as a way to combat climate change, but recent research suggests that this method of carbon sequestration isn’t ...

An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, walking for miles through dark forests. Once they arrive at the fortress of the evil ...

Some fig trees can convert surprisingly large amounts of carbon dioxide into stone, ensuring that the carbon remains in the soil long after the tree has died. This means that fig trees planted for ...