From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

“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 ...

Many of the best artificial Christmas trees are on sale for Cyber Week, including our best overall pick, the National Tree Company Douglas Fir. For more deals, check out our roundup of the best Cyber ...

After strategy drama in Qatar, Norris is 12 points ahead of Verstappen and 16 points in front of McLaren team-mate Piastri with 25 points for a win in Sunday's race at the Yas Marina Circuit.

The best artificial Christmas trees dazzle your home without the cleanup and maintenance required of a real tree. They also offer features no live tree can offer: the ability to re-use your tree year ...

Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri are set for an epic Formula 1 title decider on Sunday, with Verstappen on pole for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen, after taking advantage of a ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. According to National Wildlife Federation, there are two varieties of Douglas ...

The environmental pros and cons of Christmas trees go far beyond the climate impact of "real or plastic", scientists say. So what's the best choice for a green Christmas? In 1800, Queen Charlotte, the ...

Abstract: The distributed no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem (DNIPFSP) has widely existed in various manufacturing systems. The makespan and total tardiness are optimized simultaneously ...

Abstract: The nature of heterophilous graphs is significantly different from that of homophilous graphs, which causes difficulties in early graph neural network (GNN) models and suggests aggregations ...