Science

County health departments have been testing beach water quality since 2000, and issuing advisories when bacteria levels get too high.

A disease is threatening Florida's $20 million rose industry. The disease is rose rosette. It's appeared in three north Florida nurseries and a retail…

A new study from Johns Hopkins University shows Florida’s pill mill crackdown worked in its first year.After becoming the epicenter for prescription…

The diplomatic thaw with Cuba has led to a new collaboration with scientists in that country to study the ghost orchid, one of the world's rarest...

Gov. Rick Scott vetoed nearly $57 million from the state’s Health and Human Services budget Tuesday, including $9.25 million for biomedical research....

A 2013 report from the United Kingdom’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers finds that between 30% and 50% of all food produced worldwide ends up wasted…

In South Florida, the world's two most destructive termite species could be mating because of climate change. Researchers say if the hybrids colonize, they could pose an even greater economic threat.

It's all in the timing. Biologists haven't been able to breed embryos of the rare, pillar coral in the lab because it's been tough to catch the creatures in the act.

Marine scientists from across the globe are joining a growing number of Floridians opposed to oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic coast.In a letter…

Hundreds of researchers from across the globe are in Orlando this week to talk about one thing, citrus greening. It's a disease that's devastating…