This column is written by the Master Gardeners of Yolo County each month. It provides answers to selected questions recently ...

Researchers have created an artificial intelligence model that can identify which mutations in human proteins are most likely to cause disease, even when those mutations have never been seen before in ...

If you have an avocado tree growing in your backyard, you need to be vigilant about a disease that has made a comeback and can destroy your fruit. It's called Sunblotch Viroid, a microscopic invader ...

What Happened: That smartwatch on your wrist might be getting a serious health upgrade. Researchers at Yale just figured out a way to use AI to scan your watch’s ECG (heart rhythm) data and spot signs ...

Last year, Wallace and Gromit were projected on to the Battersea Power Station’s 330-feet tall chimneys. The year before, work by David Hockney. This year, it could be yours. A U.K. competition ...

It might be easy to grow and care for an apple tree, but keeping it safe? Well, that is where the problems begin. There is no shortage of pests and diseases that affect it, and any one of them could ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Arborists have been working on a potential ...

Trees cannot speak for themselves. There are times when humanity must speak for them. Our beloved beech trees are in peril. I have already written too many eulogies this year so I am hoping Mother ...

In the early part of the 20th century, the American chestnut was ravaged by an invasive fungus that arrived from Asia. That fungus made the American chestnut functionally extinct, and although some ...

Nature writer Kumar (Conversations with Birds) explores the history and diversity of apples in this thorough mix of memoir and ecology. Growing up in northern India, Kumar started foraging for apples ...

Abstract: Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, primarily affects the apple trees and the crab apples. It first emerges as dark, and velvety spots on leaves, fruits, and occasionally ...