High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...

Science isn't always perfect, and decades ago, a graduate student's simple experiment proved that, though exactly why he did what he did remains a mystery.

Tree rings hold clues about ancient solar storms. New research shows tree growth and carbon storage can shift those signals across years.

Tree rings serve as natural time capsules capturing powerful radiocarbon spikes from ancient Miyake solar storms. A new study ...

Scientists have long relied on tree rings to learn about ancient solar storms—rare bursts of high-energy particles from the sun that can disrupt ...