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Given the lack of rain across South Central Texas, this has led to less pollen. According to Dr. Erika Gonzalez with STAAMP allergy, the current drought has led to lower cedar counts for this winter ...

Tu B’Shvat, the new year for fruit trees, the 15 th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, marks the cutoff point of that year’s ...

Boy names may not be top of mind when you think of flowers, but there are plenty of flower-inspired names perfect for a child ...

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

SANDUSKY, Ohio — When Cedar Point opened last year, the park's new star attraction -- the Top Thrill 2 roller coaster -- was only in operation for a few days before it was ultimately closed for the ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

Inside the darkened interior of Mark Hartman’s early generation Double Bull Blind, he and I watch the sun rise and the landscape come into form as sunlight spreads across the open field in ...