For a plant, nothing is more critical than the punt taken by its first root. One thread, slim as a hair, must anchor a seed that has drifted to earth – fallen, fluttered, floated, perhaps glided on ...

Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke’s album covers and other works, on view in their hometown of Oxford, demonstrate the power of ...

Researchers have identified ginkgo-toothed beaked whales alive at sea for the first time after years of searching, and in ...