In summer, wood ducks along the Illinois River make good use of the woods – living up to the name given to one of the state’s most popular species. It’s what they do after July that has long intrigued ...

A large and vigorous conifer, forming a conical tree to 30m tall. It has fissured, scaly grey bark and grey-green needles arranged on stout, pale brown shoots. It produces cylindrical, bright ...

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“This accidental discovery really gave a critical data point,” said Ning Zeng, a University of Maryland climate scientist whose team unearthed the ancient chunk of wood. “It’s a single ...

He and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec, one that they planned to fill with 35 metric tons of wood, cover with clay soil, and let sit for nine years.

If you have pattern matching needs that go beyond this, consider writing a user-defined function in Perl or Tcl. While most regular-expression searches can be executed very quickly, regular ...

These defects can weaken the wood or, in some cases, add visual interest depending on their context. Knots form where branches once grew from the tree’s trunk, appearing as dark circular patterns ...