Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge in 2025. She captured 60 invasive Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition. Stanberry, a Naples native, has over a ...

Python 3.14 was the star of the show in 2025, bringing official support for free-threaded builds, a new all-in-one installation manager for Windows, and subtler perks like the new template strings ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Horrifying footage has captured the moment a six-meter python dragged a tour guide underwater, just moments before coiling around his neck. Experienced snake catcher, Heru, was traveling down a river ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

Fashion trend forecasters should flag snake skin as the next big thing in the Sunshine State. The invasive Burmese python, which has been terrorizing the natural wildlife of the Florida Everglades for ...

The Weekend Read is a series of first-person narratives and dispatches with a political through line. You can read these essays every Saturday on our website—or in your inbox if you subscribe to our ...

A snake in southern California was craving more than rodents and birds this week, so it stopped at an In-N-Out Burger drive-thru to get some grub. An employee at the burger chain’s Monrovia location ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...