Months of planning, a remote swamp route and a remarkable discovery helped one determined hunter turn a grueling challenge ...

Tom Rahill said he was on a mission. Rahill, the ultimate grand prize winner for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, was recognized by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) today ...

As AI agents gain autonomy inside enterprises, the biggest cybersecurity threat may no longer be hackers, but the agents ...

An Anthropic AI model, Claude Fable 5, helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, a famous open problem in mathematics dating to 1939. The model produced a concrete counterexample that ...

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The Florida Python Challenge is a ten-day event where participants hunt invasive Burmese pythons. Officials advise against eating python meat due to high levels of mercury found in the snakes. Experts ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer. By Kenneth Chang Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the ...

A North Carolina man has been charged in the 1988 killing of an Orlando, Florida, woman after advances in DNA technology helped investigators identify a suspect nearly four decades after the case went ...

As the Boston murder case of Swedish nanny Karina Holmer reaches 30 years without resolution, law enforcement across the region is solving or working on other cold cases. Here are some of those ...

If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to fall. These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...