How Burmese pythons reached the Florida Keys and pushed a rare woodrat toward extinction

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds ...

Florida's giant Burmese pythons are doing more than eating wildlife, they are transforming the Everglades by spreading seeds

Burmese pythons have already earned a reputation as one of Florida's most destructive invasive species, wiping out ...
NPR

A geneticist is studying pythons for clues about human health and longevity

A team of researchers believes that pythons may contain clues to help treat a range of human ailments — from heart disease to muscle atrophy, and more. And now we consider pythons. It is usually best ...
The Guardian

Molecule in python blood could pave way for new obesity drugs, scientists say

Researchers find snake metabolite that suppresses appetite of obese mice ‘without some of side-effects’ of GLP-1 drugs Pythons follow the ultimate crash diet, swallowing an antelope in a single ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Python blood could hold the secret to healthy weight loss

CU Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain metabolically healthy. The ...
National Geographic news

The Grand Egyptian Museum is opening in full—here's what you need to know

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been heralded as one of the biggest cultural openings of the year. Located near the Pyramids of ...
GitHub

Type hints → Web UI. Turn Python functions into web apps — standalone or mounted inside yours.

One typed Python function → form + iframe + HTTP endpoint, simultaneously. It's a library, not a framework: it composes with what you already have. Validation, file uploads, SSE streaming, downloads, ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

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 ...
TheServerSide

Create your first Python AWS Lambda function in minutes

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Ready to develop your first AWS Lambda function in Python? It really couldn’t be easier. The AWS ...
The Hacker News

SilentSync RAT Delivered via Two Malicious PyPI Packages Targeting Python Developers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to deliver a remote access trojan called SilentSync on Windows ...
GitHub

R Interface to Python

The reticulate package provides a comprehensive set of tools for interoperability between Python and R. The package includes facilities for: Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R ...