Regular cycles of light and darkness shape all living beings. Yet when unusual events like a solar eclipse occur, the natural world reacts in remarkable ways. Animals are known to shift their behavior ...

In the Dolomite mountains of Italy, something unusual happened in a spruce forest. It waited. Not passively, like a crowd hushed before a performance, but with the poised expectancy of something alive ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...

A team of scientists have measured electrical activity in a spruce forest during a partial solar eclipse. They report that signals within and between trees appear to synchronize in the course of the ...

Regular light-dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioral shifts. While well-documented in animals, plant behavior during eclipses ...

Monica Gagliano received funding for this research from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Prudence Gibson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Hamilton, Ontario — After a nail-biting week of "mostly cloudy" forecasts, the bright sun finally emerged over Hamilton's Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) just in time for the moon to take a bite out of ...

When the moon passes in front of the sun during a solar eclipse and ushers in an uncharacteristic darkness, nature tends to react. Birds cease their chirping. Buzzing bees return to their hives. And ...

The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York's Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality. When you ...

A solar eclipse viewing party at Canada's Royal Botanical Gardens peaked with a 90-second totality that blew minds and moved hearts. Also, there were geese. When you purchase through links on our site ...