Miami Science & Technology News

The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off with a thunderous roar from Florida yesterday with a payload for the International Space Station (ISS). Among the usual pumps and circuit boards and supplies for those spinning high above our troubled orb went...

National Hurricane Center says Rick turned into an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm on Saturday with sustained winds reaching 180 mph (285 kph)...EDT Saturday (0300 GMT Sunday), the storm's center was located about 295 miles (475 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo,...

MIAMI — Watch out, animals of South Florida: It's a wild world out there. There are five species of foreign snakes just waiting to eat you. More troublingly, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released Tuesday, nonnative snakes like...

Tropical Storm Grace was moving quickly across the Atlantic Ocean Monday and is not considered a threat to the United States, meteorologists said. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said as of mid-morning Monday, Grace was about 575 miles southwest...

But those who visit a new exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park can actually take a ride on their fantasy creations. Epcot on Wednesday opened a new attraction called "Sum of All Thrills," which lets kids use computer...

There are a few upbeat findings in a new federal study of the assorted threats posed to the nation by Burmese pythons and eight other large exotic constrictors. This, for instance: ``Although the largest individuals of all of the species...

Summer officially may be gone but, like once-welcome guests that now refuse to leave, July and August still swelter on in South Florida. If you went outside today, you know this by sweaty experience: A half-century record fell in Palm...

A man who caught a 14-foot python in a Florida drain pipe was charged with perpetrating a hoax after wildlife officers discovered he owned the snake and put it in the pipe in order to stage the capture. Justin Matthews,...

Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S...Ida came ashore in Nicaragua as a hurricane Thursday before...