From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

A red-nosed reindeer who saves Christmas? Makes complete sense. An oversized elf? Perfect for the role. The occasional Grinch? Sure (even if he may have caused his Christmas calamity in the first ...

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 useless if the physical network carrying it ...

It helps that Musk’s family tree is not so much a tree as a continent. Four mothers. Fourteen children. A naming style that feels like a collaboration between Greek mythology, computer science, and a ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

↗️ Dollar Tree (DLTR): The discount chain reported results and said it will sell its Family Dollar business to a private-equity consortium for roughly $1 billion. Shares gained more than 4%. ↗️ ...

John Etnyre receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the Elaine M. Hubbard Distinguished Faculty Award When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living ...

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.

Charlotte Aten received her PhD from the University of Rochester in 2022 under the direction of Jonathan Pakianathan. Her research interests lie at the intersection of universal algebra, combinatorics ...