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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.

Technology / Software

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

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

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

'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

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

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 ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 8

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

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.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New research offers clearer picture of cold snap's effect on Everglades

Just over a year ago, a killer freeze dropped iguanas from trees, turned pythons into snake-sicles and left Mayan cichlids and other tropical fish bobbing like bloated corks in lakes and canals.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

Risk assessments to block invasive wildlife pay off, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of California, Davis, environmental and resource economist collaborated on a study that was the first to estimate the net benefits of screening potentially invasive wild animals, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Salt water alone unlikely to halt Burmese python invasion

Invasive Burmese python hatchlings from the Florida Everglades can withstand exposure to salt water long enough to potentially expand their range through ocean and estuarine environments, according to research in the latest ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2