Science

The scioto madtom hasn't been spotted by humans since 1957.

A drone captured the spectacular palette of fall colors in the landscape around the Snowbasin Resort in Huntsville on Oct. 2.

Commissioners agreed Thursday to offer the osprey as a potential replacement for the mockingbird --- Florida’s avian symbol since 1927.

NASA is launching a spacecraft that will purposely crash into an asteroid’s moon, technology that could one day save the planet from an asteroid.

Three decades after the state banned the harvesting of goliath grouper, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission approved plans Wednesday that would allow about 200 of the fish to be killed annually.

The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University.

Canadian researchers said they identified a new, mysterious kind of killer whale that hunts large mammals—like grey whale calves.

The Coast Guard says it did not investigate initial reports of an oil spill for nearly 12 hours because it didn’t have enough corroborating evidence and the agency was hindered by darkness and a lack of technology.

Florida’s manatee population continues to dwindle at an alarming rate, and Congressman Vern Buchanan says he will push for a new law that will change the classification of manatees from "threatened" to "endangered."

A Russian actor and a film director have rocketed into space to make the world’s first movie in orbit.

The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their climate-related discoveries.

Researchers suggest the reason for the higher number found in infants is because they’re far more exposed to microplastics through items such as their teething toys, sippy cups and carpeting.