Knowledge gets expensive when it arrives too late. The scientists who have made the most consequential mistakes in the ...

Recording the remains of Earth’s ancient witness. On the summer solstice of 2023, I was standing on a mountain in a remote corner of Nevada and tearing up while I shoveled snow. The alpine air was ...

On Friday, I had a front-page article on the story of Prometheus, the 5,000-year-old bristlecone that was chopped down in 1964 in the name of science — and whose memory was resurrected by Los Angeles ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, ...

Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada, a few turns off Route 50 — “the loneliest road in America” — a station wagon sat parked by the side of the highway. Before it lounged a young couple on ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — On the fourth floor of a research facility at the University of Arizona, the remnants of a famous Nevada tree anchors a display on one of modern science’s most notorious blunders.

Some national parks, like Sequoia and Redwood, are known for their ancient trees. But the world's oldest tree was from ...

LAS VEGAS — On the fourth floor of a research facility at the University of Arizona, the remnants of a famous Nevada tree anchors a display on one of modern science's most notorious blunders.