How can you tell professional programmers from fly-by-night coders? It's all about attention to the fundamentals. It may not have a sexy name like Python, but the C programming language has stood the ...

If you thought that C is the kind of language that only 60-year-old white men know, think again. Yeah, it’s the dinosaur among today’s programming languages. But it’s still alive and kicking in more ...

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) participate in complex networks of interactions with other nucleic acids and proteins that often have wide-reaching effects on cell biology. The mechanisms by which ncRNAs ...

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We ran a piece last year summarizing an IEEE study of programming-language popularity based on job listings. This article fostered conversation, including debates about whether the languages IEEE used ...

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? Credit...Joseph C. Towler, Jr. Supported by By Clive Thompson As a teenager in Maryland in the 1950s, Mary ...

A new tool developed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research and the University of Bonn makes spatial ...

Pleasant touch sensations may begin with neural coding in the periphery by specific afferents. We found that during soft brush stroking, low-threshold unmyelinated mechanoreceptors (C-tactile), but ...