Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines: detecting threats on the ocean with DNS data
By Margi Murphy From Security Asia Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines used Splunk Cloud to spot security threats across its floating IT estate. The cruise company, which is the second largest in the world, manages threats on its complex ship network…
NASA says liquid water may flow on Mars. What does it mean for life?
By Miriam Kramer From Mashable NASA revealed on Monday the strongest evidence yet that liquid water occasionally still flows on Mars. Planetary scientists often say that researchers should “follow the water” when looking for extraterrestrial life, so finding clear data…
Earthquakes recorded off Barbados, Trinidad; expert issues warning
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday September 28, 2015 – The University of the West Indies (UWI) Seismic Research Centre recorded four earthquakes off Barbados and Trinidad yesterday, ranging in magnitude from 3.8 to 4.5. No damage or injuries were reported. The…
Cayman Islands minister wants children protected from pesticides
Minister Kurt Tibbetts – Minister of Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure Message for Pesticide Awareness Day 2015 The Cayman Islands’ most delicate resource, our children, are the subject of a unique observance this weekend, the objective of which should…
Peculiar Caribbean village where girls naturally transform into boys at puberty
By Mirror From Standard Media There are three sexes in Salinas where being a pseudohermaphrodite is so common it’s accepted alongside male and female. On the face of it, the small village of Salinas in the Barahona Province of the…
Supermoon lunar eclipse SUN 27
From USA Today It almost sounds like something from a comic strip: A total supermoon lunar eclipse, also known as a blood moon. But this is for real — and it’s happening Sunday night through Monday. Here’s what you need…
CERN’s ALICE
Photos: A behind-the-scenes look at CERN’s ALICE By Conner Forrest From TechRepublic ALICE Recently, after a more than two-year hiatus, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began delivering data again. Let’s take a look at one of its most important experiments,…
First magnetic wormhole created in lab
By Walt Bonner FoxNews.com From BGR Researchers in Spain have created the first–ever magnetic wormhole in a lab. The specially designed sphere is capable of transferring a magnetic field from one location to another via a process that is magnetically…
Expert report says impacted coral COULD be successfully translocated from proposed Cayman Islands cruise ship berthing site
Benthic Habitat Survey Report Impacted Coral Could be Successfully Translocated From Pier Site Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (22 September, 2015) The Benthic Habit Survey Report commissioned on behalf of the Cayman Islands Government to examine marine habitats within the proposed…
Gadget of the week
Large Hadron Collider gets back to running science experiments By Jon Fingas from engadget The LHC is colliding particles again What’s that strange circular shape, you ask? That, friends, is what particle physics looks like when it’s getting back on…





