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Taking the grunt work out of web development

Posted: 23 Dec 2014 11:16 AM PST

A new programming language automatically coordinates interactions between Web page components. The language is called Ur/Web, and it lets developers write Web applications as self-contained programs. The language's compiler -- the program that turns high-level instructions into machine-executable code -- then automatically generates the corresponding XML code and style-sheet specifications and embeds the JavaScript and database code in the right places.

Ecosystems need math not random nature to survive

Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:43 AM PST

A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be behind one of nature's greatest mysteries – how ecosystems survive.