I was pleased with your recent editorial praising President Obama but dismayed that it was sandwiched between two dogmatic writings by columnists. First, it was heartbreaking to see brilliant young Suzannah Beiner apparently being totally brainwashed by the far right wing. It appears that she has used her remarkable talents to gain a total command of rarely used English words, that very few of her readers will understand but has totally missed learning basic science. ...more

December 20, 2009

A scientist from the federal Environmental Protection Agency working here for the Super Bowl was arrested this morning, accused of stealing a taxicab, police said. ...more

January 28, 2009

George Church wants to put his personal genetic blueprint online for all to see - the sequence of chemical bases that make him who he is, a lanky scientist of Scottish ancestry who has dyslexia, narcolepsy and motion sickness. ...more

October 20, 2008

The University of South Florida took control of the troubled Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute this summer, and on Wednesday it announced that 19 of the center's 71 workers have been laid off, most of them administrators. The cuts will save the center $2 million a year, roughly 40 percent in salaries and benefits. ...more

September 25, 2008

The chairman of the of Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that he does not believe Bruce Ivins acted alone in the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. ...more

September 18, 2008

This is where science meets human emotion. This is where a man walks into a room as a scientist, and walks out of it as a son. ...more

September 8, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday. ...more

July 5, 2008

Representatives of state and county agencies overseeing environmental preservation and related issues will meet Tuesday with residents of the southernmost portion of Hillsborough County to discuss how growth will affect natural resources. The discussion is part of the development of the South Side Community Plan, which is expected to guide county planners and shape the look of the community south of the Little Manatee River in years to come. ...more

July 3, 2008

Murray Steger of Port Richey says biblical story of creation not at odds with science. ...more

January 29, 2008