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Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night

Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse a metre (three feet) away with enough precision and speed to hunt in the dark.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Picture-driven computing (w/ Video)

Until the 1980s, using a computer program meant memorizing a lot of commands and typing them in a line at a time, only to get lines of text back. The graphical user interface, or GUI, changed that. By representing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.

Technology / Software

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 7 weblog

Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion

Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report documents the risks of giant invasive snakes in the US

Five giant non-native snake species would pose high risks to the health of ecosystems in the United States should they become established here, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released today.

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Florida bill would ban pythons as pets

You wouldn't be able to buy a Burmese python as a pet anymore in Florida, under a bill drafted by a state senator who said the state should shut off the source of "dangerous reptiles" that have colonized the Everglades.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

'Vicious' Giant Python Invading Florida

(PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 weblog

Fla. governor approves plan to capture, kill Burmese pythons

By next week, the first of a select squad of python hunters will be ready to roll.

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Burmese pythons slithering their way north?

(AP) -- One by one, seven slithering Burmese pythons were dumped into a snake pit surrounded by 400 feet of reinforced fence at the Savannah River Ecology Lab in South Carolina.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1


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