Kerry Sheridan
WLRN
Tampa, FL, United States
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Florida Superintendents Ask Tallahassee To Offer Remote Option In Spring
Uncertainty reigns about plans for the second half of the school year, as Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran's emergency order expires soon. → Read More
DeSantis Vows To Ease Restrictions on Bars, Breweries Soon
Florida suspended drinking at bars in late June, as some blamed a rise in cases of coronavirus on late-night drinking and lack of social distancing. → Read More
Concussions Are Most Common Injury In Children's Sports, Study Finds
Children's recreational sports are growing more competitive than ever. And with that can come big injuries. A first-of-its-kind study on children aged 5 to → Read More
NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed
A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark → Read More
US property crisis looms as sea level rises, experts warn
Along sun-splashed shorelines in the US state of Florida, home prices are on the rise, developers are busy building new complexes, and listings just blocks from the beach describe homes that are "not in a flood zone," meaning no flood insurance is required. A reality check may come sooner → Read More
SpaceX poised to launch 'world's most powerful rocket' from Florida
SpaceX is poised for the first test launch Tuesday of its Falcon Heavy, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation, capable of reaching the Moon or Mars some day. The launch, scheduled for 1:30 pm (1830 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is the most ambitious yet for SpaceX → Read More
Hurricanes, heat waves, fires ravaged planet in 2017
Fierce hurricanes, heat waves, floods and wildfires ravaged the planet in 2017, as scientists said the role of climate change in causing or worsening certain natural disasters has grown increasingly clear. It was also the year the world's second largest polluter, the United States, turned its back → Read More
Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space
Forty years ago, NASA rocket scientists sought to answer this question by launching the Voyager spacecraft, twin unmanned spaceships that would travel further than any human-made object in history. When Voyager 1 and 2 launched about two weeks apart in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, scientists knew → Read More
A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere
A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said Wednesday. After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will become → Read More
Why nuclear could become the next 'fossil' fuel
A gray dinosaur statue outside south Florida's largest power plant is meant to symbolize two decommissioned fossil fuel reactors, but it also could be seen to represent a nuclear industry crumpling under mounting costs. Almost a decade ago, Turkey Point was aiming to become one of the country' → Read More
Mouse sperm survives in space, but could human babies?
Freeze-dried mouse sperm that spent nine months in space has been used to produce healthy rodent offspring back on Earth, Japanese researchers said this week. As NASA and other global space agencies work furiously on propelling people to Mars by the 2030s, experts say essential questions of survival → Read More
Most mutations in cancer are random DNA mistakes: study
A new study published Thursday suggests that cells make random mistakes while dividing, accounting for most of the mutations in tumors, rather than family history or environmental factors. The report in the journal Science was authored by the same team that led a controversial study in January 2015 → Read More
US doctors perform first HIV-to-HIV liver transplant
The world's first liver transplant from a donor infected with HIV to an HIV-positive recipient was announced Wednesday by US doctors, three years after a US ban on such operations was overturned. The procedure involved a deceased donor whose liver was transplanted into a patient who had been infected with the virus that causes AIDS more than 20 years ago, said doctors at Johns Hopkins… → Read More
In Florida, calls to keep 'saving the manatees'
When Brandy Pounds swam in central Florida's Crystal River earlier this month, she came so close to an endangered manatee that she could feel the sea cow's breath tickling her toes. Languid, whiskered and weighing as much as 1,200 pounds (545 kilograms), the bulbous Florida manatees -- a subspecies of the West Indian manatees -- were among the first creatures to be named by the United States as… → Read More
Grandpa astronaut to break Scott Kelly's space record
A grandfather of three is poised to blast into space and the record books on Friday, becoming the American astronaut who has spent the longest time in space, NASA said. Jeff Williams, 58, is the first American to make three long-duration flights to orbit, and will break a US record set by astronaut Scott Kelly earlier this year. By the end of his half-year mission at the orbiting International… → Read More
SeaWorld to stop breeding killer whales
Marine theme-park giant SeaWorld announced Thursday it will stop breeding orcas, also known as killer whales, and will no longer keep any of the giant sea creatures in captivity after its current generation dies. The park and popular tourist destination has faced criticism from animal rights groups over its treatment of orcas, which opponents say are kept in tanks that are too small, fed… → Read More
Vaccine against dengue virus is 100 percent effective: study
An experimental vaccine against dengue, the world's most common mosquito-borne virus, was 100 percent effective in early trials and could speed up the pace of a vaccine against Zika, researchers said Wednesday. Dengue -- which is in the same family of flaviviruses as Zika -- infects some 390 million people each year in more than 120 countries of the world. Dengue symptoms are often mild, but… → Read More
Puerto Rico may face 'hundreds of thousands' of Zika cases: US
Puerto Rico may be on the brink of a massive outbreak of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus which has been linked to birth defects, and cash is urgently needed, warned US health authorities on Thursday. Tom Frieden, the chief of the US Centers for Disease Control, told reporters on a conference call that → Read More
Sore
US astronaut Scott Kelly said Friday he is battling fatigue and super-sensitive skin, but is back to his normal height after a year spent testing the effects of long-term spaceflight ahead of a future mission to Mars. Kelly's 340-day journey in space, undertaken along with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, wrapped up early Wednesday when they landed in frigid Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz… → Read More
More evidence that aspirin lowers risk of cancer: study
People who take aspirin regularly have a significantly lower risk of cancer, particularly involving the colon and gastrointestinal tract, according to US research published on Thursday. The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Oncology suggest that aspirin use should complement -- not replace -- already established preventive screening measures such as… → Read More