Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2012 – Day 1
OVER 1,000 STUDENTS AT SEPANG TO PARTICIPATE IN SHELL ECO-MARATHON ASIA 2012 Today, students from all over Asia and the Middle East have come together at Kuala Lumpur’s Sepang International Circuit to compete in Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2012. A total…
Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC
Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. The particle has been the subject of a 45-year hunt to explain how matter attains its mass. Both…
Two 15 year old turtles hatched in Cayman Islands find their way to Omaha
Two green sea turtles are the two newest residents of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. The 15-year-olds had a roundabout journey to get here. Ambrose and Merv were hatched in the Cayman Islands in 1997 and sent to the…
Everything Science at Rotary Fair
Students showed their talents at the Rotary Central’s Annual Science Fair on Saturday 26th May. The Camana Bay Arts and Recreation Centre (Arc) was alive with innovation and a good crowd of interested persons flowed past the exhibits all day….
Astronomical Society invites public to view transit of Venus at Camana Bay on Tuesday 5 June
Cayman Islands residents and visitors will have the extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus transit across the face of the Sun in the late afternoon of Tuesday 5 June. This opportunity will not occur again for 105 years….
‘Ring of fire’ eclipse wows sky-gazers
AFP) – Millions of sky-gazers got the spectacle of a lifetime as a “ring of fire” solar eclipse crossed the Pacific from Asia to the United States, where it triggered whoops at festive viewing parties. The annular eclipse was visible…
Greening Cayman
GIS Spotlight airs today (Friday, 11 May) and Saturday (12 May). This week’s show highlights how to live green and takes you somewhere outside the frenetic pace of Island life. It also pays tribute to a notable Caymanian lady. First,…
Cyber Rays Robotics Team win at First Lego League World Invitational Tournament in Lakeland, FL
The Cayman Prep High School robotics team, and the only Robotics team in the Cayman Islands, the Cyber Rays, returned recently from Lakeland, FL, where they competed in the First Lego League World Invitational tournament. The tournament, held between May…
Paralysed woman completes London Marathon in robot suit
Claire Lomas suffered a T4 spinal injury in a 2007 horse riding accident that left her paralysed from the chest down. In 2012, she completed the London Marathon. What happened in between was the development of a robotic suit that…
Cayman Islands compete in Lego Competition
The “Brainy Bunch,” a First Lego League (FLL) team of six Kilmer Middle School students, won second place overall in the research category last weekend at the FLL World Invitational Open hosted by the University of South Florida and Legoland….
