There’s a snake in the Everglades that no one native to Florida ever asked for. The Burmese python didn’t slither up from the Caribbean or ride a hurricane in from Asia. We brought it — through the ...

A Florida restaurant trades invasive Burmese pythons for free pizza during the 2026 Python Challenge.

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

Team KAAmazing Robotics, a group of eight- and nine-year-olds from Zebra Robotics in Kitchener, Ont., won gold in the junior ...

Botball addresses STEM education with autonomous robotics, real coding, and a level playing field driven entirely by students ...

A comic book ad once let kids order live reptiles through the mail, and the consequences are still unfolding in Florida’s ...

In 1996, Kermit the Frog donned the captain's hat as Captain Abraham Smollett in Muppet Treasure Island, hopping through the ...

Snakes keep rodents out of your crops, balance entire ecosystems, and their venom saves human lives, yet nearly half of Americans feel anxious just looking at one. The fear runs deep, but so does the ...

Spread the loveAs technology continues to advance, the interest in robotics has skyrocketed among students. Robotics kits for ...

This letter is in response to Robin Berightthereill’s “Are We Leaving Our Children Behind?”, (Mailbox, 6/25/2026).

As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

A cutting-edge technology like artificial intelligence might seem out of place in an elementary classroom. But educators are ...