I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

With only a bit of whimsy, we have saved one of the most obvious attributes for last: Why do quaking aspen leaves quake and tremble? The leaves of this species quake, shake and tremble in the ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble and quake ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...