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Astrophotographer Ted Wolfe looks up at the night sky through telescopes from his home in Southwest Florida and photographs it through specialized cameras.

A Burmese python found in Miami set records as the largest such snake ever captured in the Florida , according to the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The thick-billed murre is a diving bird that flies - just not very well. In fact, when Robert Ricklefs at the University of Missouri at St Louis and his colleagues studied 41 murres in flight, they found the birds consumed 146 watts per kilogram of body weight.

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Bob.Self@jacksonville.com Jacksonville architect William Morgan is presented with a lifetime achievement award by Martin Gold, the director of the school of architecture at the University of Florida, and Martha Kohen, a professor at the architecture school.

The Gainesville Sun reports the 19-year-old woman was taken to Shands at the University of Florida as a precaution on Saturday night.

The actor, who plays Daniel Green, the resident nerd in the medical examiner's office, will appear at an event for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America 7-10 p.m. at Cafe Iguana in Pembroke Pines.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, seen in a recent interview with NBC 6, planned to sign the budget into law on Monday.

Myles Potter, known to some as North Augusta High School's 2005 valedictorian and a three-sport athlete for the Yellow Jackets, is on the verge of a major milestone this week.

Regaining consciousness, Meghan Wilson found herself sliding across the ice on her stomach and feeling a buzzing pins-and-needles feeling, shoulders down, similar to a funny bone being bumped.

Short-term memory loss often keeps Elliott Cornblatt from pinpointing what happened the day before.

He presided over a television sensation and came out of it with even more respect and admiration than before Casey Anthony set foot in his courtroom.

The University of Florida and the Gainesville Police Department are warning all in the vicinity of campus to be on the outlook for two armed men.

They are men and women from all branches of the military. Some are still active duty.

Millions of students enroll in college every year and the competition to get in gets tougher each semester.

As summer approaches, the preparation and care you've given your vegetable garden will really be put to the test.

The president, the faculty, and the graduating class of the University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communications, announce the graduation of Kyra Elise Love on Sunday, May 5, 2013 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism.

A University of Florida nursing researcher has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how to best and most safely nourish very low birth weight infants, who weigh less than 3.3 pounds.

Nouabale-Ndoki National Park is a tree-dotted enclave in Central Africa's Republic of Congo.

An aspirin a day may not always keep heart disease away, say two University of Florida cardiologists.