These days, many of us are leaning into leisure. And it’s about time! Since we all need a well-rounded sleep schedule to feel ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

(Photos by Qiu Quanlin) In parks and along streets and roads in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, varieties of flowering tabebuia chrysantha, bauhinia variegate, sakura, kapok and other ...

I have lived all my life in Delhi and loved the flowering of the semal tree, but I learnt ... filled with a fluffy, silk-cotton fibre, commercially known as Indian kapok. This silky floss is ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

The kapok flowers bloom in March in Guangzhou, the provincial city of South China's Guangdong province. As the kapok trees across the city gradually awaken, various locales have been transformed into ...