For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

Native forest restoration usually starts with faster growing "nurse plants" that provide shelter under which to plant bigger ...

Abstract: Feature tracking in time-varying scalar fields is a fundamental task in scientific computing. Topological descriptors, which summarize important features of data, have proved to be viable ...

Abstract: Aiming at the reliability allocation problem in the design of redundancy flight control computer system of a certain type of teletype aircraft, a reliability allocation method combining ...