We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...

Assessing the age of a living tree is straightforward enough—just ... the number of lines in the core formed by the tree's annual growth rings. (The rings of ancient bristlecone pines like ...

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

PhD student Banzragch Bat-Enerel measuring the annual rings using a microscope. The annual rings can be used to reconstruct tree growth in the past.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR) — The City of Syracuse rang in the holiday season with the annual tree lighting ceremony in Clinton Square. Hundreds gathered downtown to get a glimpse of the beacon of cheer.

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...