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Families have been decorating their houses with evergreen and fir trees for centuries to celebrate the winter solstice, and this tradition carried over to the Christian holiday, Christmas. They brave ...

The Balsam Hill Vermont White Spruce is so pretty, but pretty spendy—but you can get a great deal this Black Friday. Balsam Hill's Vermont White Spruce artificial Christmas tree is the best fake you ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Centra's Alan B. Pearson Regional Cancer Center is spreading Christmas cheer this holiday season through its annual 'Trees of Hope.' It is a time when it's most exciting for ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Rockefeller Center announced Oct. 27 that its iconic Christmas tree for this year will come from East Greenbush, New York, and is being donated by the Russ ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Every human society faces a common challenge: To develop the best possible mix of tools that can help them solve problems. But tools, ranging from simple hunting and cooking implements to technology ...

To see a mighty sequoia tree, you usually have to travel to the western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. Now children in Detroit, Michigan, are helping to plant sequoias in their city ...

DAYTON — Still a few months off from the holiday season, but it’s time to start decking the halls! The Downtown Dayton Partnership (DDP) is looking for the perfect tree to be the centerpiece of the ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional ...