Sarasota Science & Technology News

They are battling to overcome perceptions spread by word of mouth and the Internet that the new vaccine is untested or that swine flu is not dangerous. In Sarasota County, where consent forms were mailed to parents of schoolchildren last...

46 p.m. A small, but concentrated patch of red tide may have led to recent fish kills off the coast of Sanibel. A research cruise took water samples along the entire Florida coast last week and recorded concentrations of red...

Waldo is missing – he had gone underwater to gather critical information on algae and there is no trace of him since past couple of days. It took over US $1 million to equip him for the task and he...

The next big thing I want to accomplish in my adult life is to own a home. While riding my bike to work in the morning I pick out my favorite houses and think, “I would put the vegetable garden...

The big future issue in the US these days is of course the very, very near future of the presidential elections in November. Now that we've got our candidates, one of who will make a great president and the other...

Wii Fit! I've seen the future of exercise and it looks a lot like a scale without any numbers on it. OK, "the future of exercise" might be a bit hyperbolic - the Wii Fit is by no means the...

I was having a debate with an old high school friend a couple years ago about the war in Iraq. We hadn't seen each other in quite a while, and he'd grown up more than a little right of center...