One fund to solve all your problems—it’s the dream of every investor who wants the simple life. But for all except aggressive investors with 100% in stocks, it was largely impossible until recently, ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

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Abstract: We propose a length-flexible coding scheme by defining a balanced tree. For an arbitrary code length, we first construct a balanced binary tree (BBT) where the root node represents a ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen and sugar for growth out. In a world where atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ...

Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas? I grew up measuring Christmas by the tree. Cut-your-own, grocery-lot deals, even in my young adult years, Manhattan bodega carry-aways à la “When Harry ...

Balanced funds can be an investor’s best friend. If you can handle some ups and downs, up to about a 20% drop in value, and you’re planning to invest for at least 10 years, these “set it and forget it ...

Oak trees change their fine roots and ‘energise’ soil microbes by supplying them with a cocktail of small organic compounds, all to supplement the trees’ supply of essential nutrients when exposed to ...