US HIV baby ‘cured’ by early drug treatment
A baby girl in the US born with HIV appears to have been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, doctors say. The Mississippi child is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off medication for about a…
Game-changing breast healthcare cancer technology to be showcased
Hologic to Showcase Game-Changing Breast Tomosynthesis Technology and Other Product Innovations at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna Company to host special ECR symposium and workshops to mark significant advances in its tomosynthesis development program Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or…
Telescope: making students show off their creations
The attached photograph shows amateur telescope making students and their completed telescopes at the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI). The proud students stand by their recently completed astronomical telescopes built as part of a UCCI Observatory Amateur Telescope…
Grand Cayman Nature Tours
The Cayman Islands were discovered by Columbus over 500 years ago. Permanent settlement came later. Indigenous plants were used for shelter, food, clothing, healing, everyday utility, boatbuilding, livelihood and export. They are part of the history, culture and identity of…
Dive Adventure: Grand Cayman
By Michael Zeigler Amazing underwater photography opportunities abound in Grand Cayman When I heard that my employer’s annual “Apex Award” trip in January was to Grand Cayman (sweet!), I immediately started mentally preparing for all of the great underwater photo…
Exoplanet Kepler 37b is tiniest yet – smaller than Mercury
By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News Astronomers have smashed the record for the smallest planet beyond our Solar System – finding one only slightly larger than our Moon. To spot the tiny, probably rocky planet, they first…
World’s most extreme deep-sea vents revealed [in the Cayman Trough]
Released by University of Southampton Scientists have revealed details of the world’s most extreme deep-sea volcanic vents, 5 kilometres down in a rift in the Caribbean seafloor. The undersea hot springs, which lie 0.8 kilometres deeper than any seen before,…
Cosmos may be ‘inherently unstable’
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News, Boston Scientists say they may be able to determine the eventual fate of the cosmos as they probe the properties of the Higgs boson. A concept known as vacuum instability could result, billions…
Arctic Ice Hasn’t Disappeared as Predicted
A leading climate scientist predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free in five years — five years ago. An article in The Guardian published in August 2008 reported the Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey Calif.,…
Scans reveal intricate brain wiring
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News, Boston Scientists are set to release the first batch of data from a project designed to create the first map of the human brain. The project could help shed light on why some…
