This article was originally published with the title “The Java Snake Skin Industry” in SA Supplements Vol. 67 No. 1742supp (May 1909), p. 335 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05221909-335bsupp ...

In demand for its skin in the fashion industry and for the exotic meat and traditional medicine trades, the Oriental Rat Snake has been commercially harvested since the 1970s. Concern over the effects ...

What does all this have to do with Java and low-latency trading? Well, the technology that underpins low-latency trading is sometimes seen as something of a Dark Art. Certainly, it’s not well ...

A massive reticulated python was pulled from a household drain pipe on Indonesia's island of Java.