A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term "rescue strategy" is unlikely to save them from the impacts of climate ...

There is indeed a vast literature on the design and analysis of decision tree algorithms that aim at optimizing these parameters. This paper contributes to this important line of research: we propose ...

Space agencies tested bizarre things. A limbless torso measured radiation exposure while seeds from the Moon grew into trees scattered across Earth. The weirdest science projects of the space age. Boy ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Zohran Mamdani’s decision to end the city’s controversial homeless encampment sweeps will cause a “quality of life nightmare” for New Yorkers, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams and other critics railed Friday ...

Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of decision tree regression from scratch using the C# language. The goal of decision tree regression is to predict a single numeric ...

In this tutorial, we build an advanced Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that goes beyond simple question answering. We design it to intelligently route queries to the right ...

Researchers hope the introduction of forest soil and the thousands of fungal spores and other microbes living within it will provide over time a needed boost to trees planted in compact, ...

The County Championship’s controversial experiment with the Australian Kookaburra ball appears to be over after directors of cricket agreed to ditch it for next summer. Encouraged by the England ...

One of the strange quirks of cycling is how rarely the best riders on the planet actually race against each other. Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard have only raced against each other five times in ...