Joe HendersonFebruary 4, 2019
7min612
Florida doesn't need more things like SB 330.
Tag: Science
Joe HendersonFebruary 4, 2019
Jacob OglesJanuary 26, 2019
4min445
The new senator holds influence over telecommunications, coastal protections and cybersecurity.
Scott PowersJanuary 16, 2019
2min368
Charlie Crist received three key House Appropriations Committee subcommittee appointments, covering defense, NOAA, NASA, special counsel.
Scott PowersNovember 19, 2018
9min345
The congressional private power dancing has begun. Where will U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Darren Soto, Ted Deutch, Charlie Crist, Alcee Hastings, Stephanie Murphy, and Florida’s other House Democrats wind up sitting now that their party is taking power? Quietly, now and over the next few weeks, Florida’s Democratic representatives are declaring and testing their […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorNovember 11, 2018
4min557
Take a break from politics to geek out about space travel for a moment. Florida Polytechnic University researchers are working on a breakthrough technology that could simplify the way oxygen is created for such travel. Student researchers and faculty are exploring ways to use algae to capture carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. The technology would simplify […]
Daniel DeanOctober 10, 2018
5min253
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Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2018
7min373
The Arecibo Observatory, the huge, iconic radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has starred in movies and in important cosmic and physics discoveries, is coming under new management: of the University of Central Florida. The university announced Thursday it is now negotiating the final terms of a five-year, $20.2 million contract with the National Science […]
Danny McAuliffeFebruary 13, 2018
4min787
There was something off about the usual hustle and bustle of the Florida Capitol on Tuesday morning; empty corridors and courtyards were replaced with demonstrations of new age technology — and bright, young students from across the state smiled as they watched passersby marvel at their work. The scenery was for STEM — short for […]
Scott PowersJanuary 13, 2017
2min211
U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster of Clermont has been appointed to a seat on the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee, essentially replacing former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson as Central Florida’s second member of that committee. Webster, whose Florida’s 11th Congressional District includes parts of Lake County plus most of west-central Florida, joins fellow Republican […]
Diane RobertsMay 11, 2016
6min217
You’d think that a state where they launch rockets into space, a state which houses the world’s most powerful superconducting magnets, a state with several perfectly good universities, would embrace science. Or at least not be so thoroughly hostile to it. But this is Rick Scott’s Florida, where there’s still legislative resistance to teaching evolution […]