Starting at Harvard and Falling for Your First Tree

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.
Futurism

Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers

The Grinch comes in many forms: greedy businessman, bosses that won’t give you the holidays off, and even Fox News hosts. Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business, ...
NBC News

Map: Where in the U.S. Christmas trees are grown

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...
Frontiers

Estimation of individual tree biomass for three tree species using LiDAR and multispectral data in megacity Shanghai

Urban forests constitute an important component of urban ecosystems, as they not only enhance urban ecological environments and underpin the sustainable development of urban society and economy but ...
IEEE

Minimum information trees for high dimensional data visualization in clustering

Abstract: Visualizing the qualitative outcomes of clustering algorithms in high-dimensional spaces remains a persistent challenge in data analysis and machine learning. Traditional dimensionality ...
GitHub

Data Structures and Algorithms Repository

Welcome to the Data Structures and Algorithms Repository! My aim for this project is to serve as a comprehensive collection of problems and solutions implemented in Python, aimed at mastering ...
KCCI Des Moines

Python spotted in Des Moines neighborhood

A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT DAVID THANK YOU. WELL, A WOMAN SAYS IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT A YELLOW AND WHITE PYTHON WAS HANGING OUT IN HER BACKYARD. SHE SAYS SHE SAW IT LAST WEEK, BUT HAS NOT SEEN THE ...
EurekAlert!

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO2 to stone

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss ...
Geeky Gadgets

Python in Excel : Easily Unlock Advanced Data Analytics

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...
PNAS

Population structure limits the use of genomic data for predicting phenotypes and managing genetic resources in forest trees

This study was funded by the US Department of Energy Bioenergy Science Center (Contract No. DE-PS02-06ER64304). G.T.S. was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ...
Frontiers

Efficient tree species classification using machine and deep learning algorithms based on UAV-LiDAR data in North China

Introduction: The unmanned aerial vehicle -based light detection and ranging (UAV-LiDAR) can quickly acquire the three-dimensional information of large areas of vegetation, and has been widely used in ...
Geeky Gadgets

Python in Excel The Smarter Way to Use External Data

What if the tools you already use could do more than you ever imagined? Picture this: you’re working on a massive dataset in Excel, trying to make sense of endless rows and columns. It’s slow, ...