Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available ...

Previously, we watched Tim Berners-Lee knit the world together with the Web, giving us pages to browse and links to click. But a web of information is ...

FAMILY on the sofa, food coma setting in, the annual arguments are raging. But there’s one thing we can all agree on: the ...

Abstract: In this study, a unique approach is presented to improve autonomous robots’ path planning abilities, especially in dynamic environments. We propose a Dynamic Spanning Tree Coverage (D-STC) ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Abstract: The minimum spanning tree clustering algorithm is known to be capable of detecting clusters with irregular boundaries. In this paper, we propose two minimum spanning tree based clustering ...

Christmas trees are the centerpiece of a holiday celebration. Every year, between 25 and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

An innovative algorithm called Spectral Expansion Tree Search helps autonomous robotic systems make optimal choices on the move. In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of ...

Your favorite football team was named after Ohio’s state tree, known as the Ohio buckeye tree. Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut, ...