Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations can give us clues to the ...

In the dim waters off the Japanese coast, scientists have stumbled upon something that shouldn’t exist. Or at least not by the rules we thought biology followed. It’s a single-celled organism with ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: Editorial Page editor Megan Schrader takes a side in the “real vs. fake” Christmas tree debate. Look for the counterpoint by Features ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: Features coordinator Barbara Ellis takes a side in the “real vs. fake” Christmas tree debate. Look for the counterpoint by Editorial Page ...

WEST READING, Pa. – Crews are decking the halls for the holidays in West Reading. On Monday morning, crews decorated the borough Christmas tree in Delaney Circle, not far from Fifth and Penn avenues.

For many families, choosing a real Christmas tree marks the official start of the holiday season. The scent, the visit to the local farm, watching dad wrestle a half-rusted saw through the branches ...

If you haven't started decorating yet because you need more holiday decor, good news: we found the best Black Friday Christmas tree deals and smart light sales. From robot vacuums to Dyson stick vacs, ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...

A Katy-area plant nursery that had said it was going to give away Christmas trees to local heroes on Saturday said Friday evening that the news release was sent by mistake. The mistake meant that Moon ...

It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...

The Festival of Trees is an annual holiday event in Eugene, Oregon, that has been running for 33 years. Proceeds from the event benefit the Pete Moore Hospice House, one of only three such facilities ...