Is all-natural farm manure right for your garden? Could be. But manure is one of those rare things that is better when it is NOT so fresh, as I remind the reader who e-mailed me this question: ...more

December 20, 2009

Is it necessary to refrigerate cakes that have dairy ingredients? This cake starts with a mix, but I have to add sour cream to the batter. And the frosting has milk in it. Must it be refrigerated to be safe? ...more

March 1, 2009

Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid. ...more

August 26, 2008

Researchers at California Institute of Technology have developed a "microscope on a chip" using an inexpensive magnifying system that relies on a light-sensing chip instead of lenses to achieve the power of a conventional microscope. ...more

August 2, 2008

Jordan Gann, a con artist serving a sentence for stealing from a woman in Hillsborough County while posing as a doctor, was given a longer sentence Tuesday for doing the same thing to a woman in Pinellas County. ...more

June 4, 2008

CLEARWATER - Jordan Gann, a con artist serving a sentence for stealing from a woman in Hillsborough County while posing as a doctor, was given a second and longer sentence today after doing the same thing to a woman in Pinellas County. ...more

June 3, 2008

As he awaits sentencing for one scheme in Tampa, convicted con artist Jordan Gann has emerged as a suspect in an almost identical case in St. Petersburg. ...more

February 7, 2008

TAMPA - As he awaits sentencing for one scheme in Tampa, convicted con artist Jordan Gann has emerged as a suspect in an almost identical case in St. Petersburg. ...more

February 6, 2008

Scientists in Maryland on Thursday said they had built from scratch an entire microbial chromosome, a loop of synthetic DNA carrying all the instructions that a simple cell needs to live and reproduce. ...more

January 25, 2008

Vote for your favorite image of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe. Scientists are finding microbes in water frozen millions of years ago in Antarctica. ...more

December 10, 2007