After a decade-long search through the rugged, cloud-shrouded mountains of Taiwan, conservation botanists have finally confirmed the location of East Asia’s tallest known tree—a towering giant known as “The Heaven Sword.” Hidden deep within remote high-altitude forests, the remarkable tree…

For years, scientists have been puzzled by a strange behavior observed in some of the Sun’s most powerful eruptions. According to conventional space weather models, solar storms should gradually lose speed as they travel through space and collide with slower-moving…