The original Bramley apple tree is “hanging in the balance” after the property outside which it grows was put up for sale.
In her poetry collection, 'Requiem for a Home in Manipur', Hoihnu Hauzel blends personal memory with the sociopolitical realities of Northeast India.
According to the ski mountain reports, winter has finally arrived with a blessing of new snow. Meanwhile, I’m perusing seed catalogs and wondering, “Is it too soon to hope for spring?” ...
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.
The managers of the View Street parkade have evidently decided that exiting more than one exit at once is no longer the preserve of subatomic particles and can be achieved by local drivers in their ...
This piece asks hard questions about why our schools are producing kids who feel Jewish, yet aren’t prepared to defend being Jewish, and why that has to change. As an expert Hebrew educator and ...
Maybe it’s because I’ve watched every blessed one of them, starting as a curious nearly 8-year-old boy in 1967, but the Super Bowl has always felt like the ultimate barometer of where the American ...
Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...
Every time arctic air drops south, and temperatures plummet well below zero, social media lights up with a scary (and ...
Bitterly cold arctic air has blanketed parts of the United States over the last week, with some areas getting snow and subzero temperatures. Along with the cold weather comes a natural event called ...
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Exploding trees? A closer look at frost cracking

Frost cracks appear as vertical splits in the trunk of a tree and are the result of plant tissue expansion and contraction.