Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays and rendering the shaded space around them inhospitable to shorter trees ...

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions.

Asian markets of tropical fruits boast an amazing array of tastes, textures and colours, but two fruits in particular may ...

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...