Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree's age. "Most of us ...

Perhaps you’ve wandered through a forest or strolled into a neighborhood park and found tree trunks — and wondered if counting the rings on a trunk is truly a way to know the tree’s age. “Most of us ...

An enormous solar storm that occurred 7,000 years ago has helped archaeologists to date an ancient settlement in northern Greece. A spike in radiocarbon was spotted in the wood from which these ...

Charlotte Pearson, associate professor of dendrochronology, and Bryan Black, professor of dendrochronology, are using the TIME Lab’s advanced technology to analyze and date tree rings. For years, ...

A historic Hunter Creek Valley building was excavated and tree-ring dated on Friday, Sept. 20. The building, which experts think housed farm animals, is made of wood that is around two centuries old, ...

For years, Charlotte Pearson and her colleagues at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research have used tree‐ring science to travel back in time, hoping that clues from the past will ...