Diversifying working lands — including farmland, rangeland and forests — may be key to preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, says a new review article. These changes could …read more Source:: Science
Day: October 18, 2018
PostgreSQL 11 taps LLVM and parallelization for speed boost
by
•By Serdar Yegulalp The developers behind open source SQL database PostgreSQL, long vaunted as both an underappreciated gem and a potential replacement for Oracle, has officially released PostgreSQL version …read more Source:: OpenSource
Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets
by
•Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets are forming around …read more Source:: Science
150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
by
•Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony …read more Source:: Science
Electrical properties of dendrites help explain our brain’s unique computing power
by
•Neuroscientists have discovered that human dendrites have very different electrical properties from those of other species. These differences may contribute to the enhanced computing power of the human brain. …read more Source:: Science