Florida python hunters rake in cash for eliminating invasive snakes

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...
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For US pairs skaters Emily Chan and Spencer Akira Howe, the experience is a singular sensation

MILAN — She wasn’t supposed to be here after all, so it was no surprise Emily Chan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as the music wound down at Milano Ice Skating Arena. Chan and her pairs figure ...
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US figure skater Ilia Malinin suffers an unimaginable fall from grace with disastrous Olympic long program

This was not supposed to be a competition, but a coronation. Ilia Malinin had won 14 consecutive figure skating events over the last three years. He is the two-time world champion. He’d carried his ...