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Burmese pythons are ‘a South Florida problem rapidly becoming a Central Florida problem’

The annual amateur Florida Python Challenge gets hoopla and cash, but scientists harvest the real goods: tons of snakes and ...
The Cool Down

Florida's Python Challenge is back, but biologists say the 4-ton problem is moving north

One major concern is that Burmese pythons are appearing farther north, and their numbers don't appear to be dwindling despite ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

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 ...
Yahoo

Florida's Burmese python problem so bad that a record hunt of 294 snakes in 10 days barely made a dent

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason.
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Florida's Burmese python problem so bad that a record hunt of 294 snakes in 10 days barely made a dent

A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason. Even after 294 Burmese pythons were removed in just 10 days, experts say the Everglades ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...
PNAS

Resolving Feynman’s restaurant problem reveals optimal solutions and human strategies

Richard Feynman described a decision-making problem and its solution in handwritten notes, but the meaning of the notes has been a mystery for almost 50 y. We decipher the problem and solution from ...
IEEE

QUBO Formulations and Characterization of Penalty Parameters for the Multi-Knapsack Problem

Abstract: The Multi-Knapsack Problem (MKP) is a fundamental challenge in operations research and combinatorial optimization. Quantum computing introduces new possibilities for solving MKP using ...
IEEE

Learning to Construct a Solution for the Agile Satellite Scheduling Problem With Time-Dependent Transition Times

Abstract: The agile earth observation satellite scheduling problem (AEOSSP) with time-dependent transition times is a complex combinational optimization problem that has emerged from the development ...