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…
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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…
orbiting space laboratory
Get inside the largest orbiting space laboratory in history By Dan Turkel From Business Insider Thanks to the efforts of European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, you can share the dizzying experience of floating through the International Space Station’s many…
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New cancer medication launched in Jamaica
By Rochelle Williams From JIS The Government continues work to strengthen the country’s cancer care system through strategic partnerships with international entities. On August 26 of this year, the Government signed a contract with global leader in diagnostic and pharmaceutical…
A new Face Changes the Human Story
A new Face Changes the Human Story. But How? By Jamie Shreeve, National Geographic Photographs by Robert Clark Scientists have discovered a new species of human ancestor deep in a South African cave, adding a baffling new branch to the…
Prostate cancer: Improving PSA test accuracy
By Healthafter50 with Scientific American Most experts agree that prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening should be used in conjunction with other information (for example, family history, race and age) to assess the overall likelihood that prostate cancer is present, and it…
‘Small spelunkers required’: the ad that led to the discovery of Homo naledi
By David Smith at the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa From The Guardian UK The skeletons found in a South African cave were retrieved by six scientists with a hard-to-find combination of skills The advertisement on social media called for…
Who owns outer space? And what happens when corporations want to extract resources from asteroids or planets?
By David Barnett From The Independent David Barnett examines the next big land grab There was never a territory in human history that someone didn’t think they could own or make money out of. And that goes for outer space…
NASA’s Pluto probe
NASA’s Pluto probe is heading for the Kuiper belt By Mariella Moon From engadget It’s been over a month since the New Horizons spacecraft flew as near as possible to Pluto and took the closest photos of the dwarf planet…
Gadget of the week
Robotic vehicles find the Pacific Ocean’s deepest thermal vents By Jon Fingas From engadget Monterey Bay Aquarium’s autonomous underwater vehicle Robotic underwater vehicles from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Research Institute just helped discover one of the Earth’s more elusive scientific…
