How many humans does it take to measure a huge Burmese python? Three.

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM

Opus 4.7 utilizes an updated tokenizer that improves text processing efficiency, though it can increase the token count of ...

One python hunter dominates March competition for removing snakes

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...
Berkman Klein Center

Understanding algorithms — and how to make them work for you

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...
eLife

Serotonergic modulation of motor subspace dynamics drives a sleep-independent quiescent state

The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) serotonergic (5-HT) system has been implicated in regulating sleep and motor control; however, its specific role remains controversial. In this study, we found that ...
eLife

New idtracker.ai rethinks multi-animal tracking as a representation learning problem to increase accuracy and reduce tracking time

Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.
InfoWorld

HTMX 4.0: Hypermedia finds a new gear

The ingenious engine of web dev simplicity goes all-in with the Fetch API, native streaming, Idiomorph DOM merging, and more.