He decided a pair of interlocking miniature rings would be the perfect keepsake. He started his search for a way to mill the wooden rings from a solid piece of wood, and documented his journey for ...

Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...

During her summer travels to her native Belgium, University of Arizona professor Valerie Trouet noticed something that turned ...

[Olivier Gomis] did not have access to the fires of Mount Doom to forge a large replica of the One Ring, so he had to settle for patience, maple, and a wood lathe. It does have the added ...

In 1964, a graduate student cut down a bristlecone pine in Nevada. The tree, now known as Prometheus, turned out to be nearly ...

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At the U of A's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Trouet studies tree-rings to gather clues about what past climates were ...

The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or ...

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Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, provides absolute dates in two different ways: directly, and by calibrating radiocarbon results. Direct Dating of Wood Cross-dating determines the age of ...

The inaugural Sunshine Coast exhibition of an artist from Vancouver Island’s Mill Bay reveals new ways of seeing the ...

It might not be as foundational to a table as a tablecloth, or practical like a placemat, but a napkin ring can be an ...