Tampa Science & Technology News

Fla. (AP) — As Columbus Day approaches, students across the country are taking a look at the historic explorer...A heroic and positive image of Christopher Columbus was presented in U.S. classrooms decades ago. Now, some teachers are trying to present a...

Workers at the Progress Energy nuclear power plant north of Tampa found a gap in the thick concrete wall of the building that holds reactor and generator parts, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported today. The plant near Crystal River has...

Cameras are being installed into signs, billboards and cutouts to make sure that the ads are reaching their target audience. It is a small chance but still a possibility that you will run into one anytime soon. It works by...

Fla.  —  The founder of the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has created a new Web site that helps Tampa Bay area's homeless. Jimmy Wales was in town Friday to introduce the launch of tampabayhomess.wikia.com. The project creates an online resource...

Plans now call for a 225,000-square-foot tower that would add 146 beds to the already-over-burdened existing facility at HealthPark Medical Center in south Fort Myers. The fifth floor would be left empty for expansion. It would also include a new...

Fla. — Wildlife officials say they spent hours searching for a monkey on the lam in the Tampa area and couldn't locate the animal. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the monkey was first spotted in a...

In emergencies, 911 dispatchers will go to great lengths to help out callers. Unfortunately for 29-year-old Joshua Basso, needing sex is not one of those emergencies. Tampa Police arrested Basso at his Nebraska Ave. home Wednesday for making false 911...

Two Pinellas County sheriff's deputies responded to calls of a house being burglarized Sunday morning...Once inside, though, they discovered that their suspect was a lost deer. The deputies opened the garage doors and used towels to direct the animal toward...