Hybrid plants and animals have complicated genomes. A biologist has discovered a way to reveal their parent species. If you've ever kept a garden, you're probably familiar with hybrids, from ...

Detailed, accurate evolutionary trees that reveal the relatedness of living things can now be determined much faster and for thousands of species with a computing method developed by computer ...

Hybrid fruit trees are created by cross-pollinating two different types of fruit trees to produce a new variety that combines traits from each parent tree. This breeding process yields unique fruit ...

What if a walk through the forest could also mean walking through a power plant — without seeing a single machine? Every moving leaf, every gentle breeze, quietly creating energy. That idea is no ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s an endeavor that sounds like something out of a dream: Using an age-old method called grafting, artist Sam Van Aken is growing whimsical single trees that will one day bear 40 ...

It’s an endeavor that sounds like something out of a dream: Using an age-old method called grafting, artist Sam Van Aken is growing whimsical single trees that will one day bear 40 varieties of pitted ...