News tagged with python
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.
Mar 15, 2010 |
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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.
Nov 11, 2009 |
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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
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals
A burgeoning population of huge pythons - many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big - appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons, opossums, bobcats and other mammals ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Python bindings snake into global arrays toolkit
While many of us don't want anything to do with snakes, for some, a certain kind of Python—the computer programming language, that is—is the preferred option. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Anthropologist offers view of snakes as predatory, prey, and competitor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because we humans are able to write down our greatest fears, we’ve managed to amass quite a library of frightful things over the past several hundred years. One particular fear that ...
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Scientists find that non-native snakes are taking a toll on native birds
The Everglades National Park in Florida is home to hundreds of species of native wildlife. It has also become the well-established home of the non-native Burmese python -- known to be a predator of native species. Now scientists, ...
Mar 10, 2011 |
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'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.
Sep 21, 2009 |
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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.
Oct 13, 2009 |
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US bans import of Burmese pythons
The United States announced Tuesday it is banning the import of Burmese pythons and three other species of giant constrictor snakes due to the danger they pose to local wildlife.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Latest imaging techniques look inside a python (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Denmark have used CT scans and MRIs to see inside a python after it has swallowed a rat whole.
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Fire ant colonies seem to be down dramatically
The red imported fire ant, one of the most horrifying of the foreign species that have established themselves in the United States, appears to be in retreat.
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Scientists discover new threat to birds posed by invasive pythons
Smithsonian scientists and their colleagues have uncovered a new threat posed by invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and the Everglades: The snakes are not only eating the area's birds, but also the birds' ...
Apr 05, 2012 |
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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.
Jun 24, 2009 |
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First python fossil unearthed in Germany
The fossil of a python dating from about 15 million years ago has been discovered in southern Germany, first time proof that the reptile lived so far north, German palaeontologists said Monday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 17, 2011 |
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