Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

Minecraft Snapshot 25W09A introduces new fallen trees at various biomes. Now, the firefly bushes spawn in Mangrove biomes rather than badlands. Finally, the leaf litter blocks have become replaceable ...

Now that we’re getting into more complex data structures, having more complex operations, it’s helpful to have a tool for visualization. Here’s a tool developed by David Galles, formerly of University ...

Sweet pine o’ mine! It’s time to pick a tree. (Fifty of them, in fact.) Try to find all the sentient Tannenbaums. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing. On the surface, nothing could appear more commonplace than Scots pine growing in Scotland. But ...

More than one of my childhood birthday presents included a balsa wood airplane. They came as assembly kits that were fun to build but not as much fun as tossing them into the air and watching them ...

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — It’s 4 p.m. in Joshua Tree National Park and the air temperature is hovering around 99 degrees — relatively mild for an August afternoon. But at ground level, the sand along the ...

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...

Abstract: Alphabetic codes and binary search trees are combinatorial structures that abstract search procedures in ordered sets endowed with probability distributions. In this paper, we design new ...