Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

A deciduous tree capable of reaching up to 130 feet tall, the black walnut (Juglans nigra) can be found in the central-eastern United States. It has serrated compound leaves and furrowed ...

Oak trees come in two major prototypes — red oak trees and white oak trees. Some oak trees have leaves that stay on ... Shumard oak, black oak, scarlet oak, and southern/northern red oak.

"And I knew that all of these vibrating leaves would create a significant amount of vibration within the tree." Rice then set out to capture that tree-wide vibration in the midst of a thunderstorm.

We’ve recently shared what those slightly ominous black clumps in the branches of trees really are (and no, they’re not nests). Like Tom Hanks, we learned the real reason leaves lose their ...