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Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland is the newest of the 12 institutions in the State University System of Florida. It’s the state's only public…
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Back in 2015, news spread of a widespread epidemic of Zika fever in Brazil, caused by the Zika virus. It spread to other parts of South and North America,…
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The Galapagos Islands represent one of the world’s pinnacles of natural diversity as well as scientific discovery. It is the place that inspired Charles…
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In 1900 there were about 12 million people employed in agriculture in the U.S. in the year 1900. That's 1 out of every 6 people. Today, there are about…
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New research just getting underway at Florida Gulf Coast University is exploring a novel approach to possibly someday controlling blue-green algae, or…
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The documentary Toxic Puzzle tells the story of an ethnobotanist named Paul Cox who has spent years trying to track down links between toxins produced by…
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While self-driving cars used to be a thing of science fiction, they are rapidly becoming a reality. Different manufacturers in different countries are…
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According to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, more than 500 confirmed individual cases of measles have been recorded in 20 different…
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The concept of Artificial Intelligence in terms of digital computing has been around since the mid 1950s. Researchers have continued to work in this field…
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Frances E. Jensen, MD explores and analyzes mysterious territory in her book, “The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents…
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