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For hundreds of years, Khasi and Jaintia people in Meghalaya, India, have woven the roots of Indian rubber trees into ...

The tree’s telomeres – the protective “caps” on the ends of chromosomes that stop their charge from fraying or breaking down, ...

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Arborists work in a world of extreme heights and life-or-death consequences every day. I went behind the scenes of a ...