Researchers study how Champatis roll and bounce down inclines. The authors released a heap of the seeds down an inclined plane while a camera recorded their descent to analyze their speed and the ...

Champatis, the seeds of the Lapsi tree, are valued in Nepal for their medical, economic, social, and cultural significance.

Sliding Champatis, the seeds of the Lapsi tree, can provide insight into devastating landslides and rock avalanches.

In this week’s Physics of Fluids, researchers study how Champatis roll and bounce down inclines. The authors released a heap ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first ...