The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but ...

Over one-third of the compounds were terpenoids, chemicals that plants use to ward off threats like insects and pathogens.

But for at least one tropical tree species ... about five times during its 300-year lifespan. Then, by running simulations using data on details such as how the trees grow and reproduce, the ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects ... instead of absorbing this ...

But in the lowland rainforests of Panama, one species of towering tropical tree may have evolved to use this force of nature ...