Prominent C++ developer Herb Sutter has proposed eliminating many dangling and null reference bugs in C++, to to address a longstanding issue with the language and promote code safety.
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The fossils of two extinct mice species have been discovered in caves in tropical Queensland by scientists tracking environment changes.

Birds' voiceboxes are in their chests instead of their throats like mammals and reptiles. Scientists aren't sure how or why birds evolved these unique voiceboxes, but a new study sheds some ..

Honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Scientists..

New research shows that an ancient retrovirus — HK2 — is more frequently found in drug addicts and thus is significantly associated with addiction.

Researchers have developed a new way to model seismic risk, which they hope will better inform disaster risk reduction planning in earthquake-prone areas.

Recently, scientists created a stir in the field of condensed matter physics when they showed that two sheets of graphene twisted at specific angles display two emergent phases of matter. After a care..

New evidence supports the idea that plants owe their rainbow of fruit colors to the different animals that eat them. Researchers first had to get past the fact that most animals don't see colors ..

Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings in which experts share their thoughts and feelings with each other a..

By looking at Earth's full natural history and evolution, astronomers may have found a template for vegetation fingerprints — borrowing from epochs of changing flora — to determine the age of h..