A tiny version of Hell on Earth exists in Cleveland, Ohio
By Dave Mosher From Business Insider Inside a windowless concrete room in Cleveland, Ohio, scientists have built a tiny version of Hell on Earth. Called the Glenn Extreme Environments Rig (GEER), the 14-ton steel chamber can faithfully recreate the toxic,…
Valuable Caribbean spiny lobsters get their food from an unexpected source
From PHYS.Org In the typical food web that most of us learned in school, the sun is the ultimate source of energy. Plants use energy from the sun to produce their own food via photosynthesis. Animals eat those plants or…
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Scientists find bacteria resistant to last-ditch drug treatments
By Jon Fingas From engadget It’s a warning that medicine needs to find an alternative to current antibiotics. If there wasn’t already a reason to develop a solution to drug-resistant “superbugs,” there is now. Scientists have found bacteria on an…
Cayman Islands Fire Service offers extinguisher training
It takes only seconds for a fire to spread, and the Cayman Islands Fire Service (CIFS) says knowing how to react is the key to surviving any blaze. Divisional Officer Witney Tatum, with the Cayman Brac and Little Cayman Fire…
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Fishy Caribbean ‘juveniles’ to be recognized as a new species, the Hourglass basslet
From Phys.org Living in deep reefs in the Atlantic Ocean, the banded basslet, a small and colorful species with a wide range of distribution, has long been thought to undergo significant changes during its growth into an adult. Suspiciously, the…
More than 100 scientists sign letter of support for planned asteroid deflection mission, urge funding
By Norman Byrd From Inquisitr More than 100 scientists have signed an open letter to support the joint NASA/ESA asteroid deflection mission slated for a 2020 launch. They do so not only because of the necessity of learning whether an…
Scientific crashing of jet
Dec. 1, 1984 The Controlled Impact Demonstration By Alex Q. Arbuckle From Mashable Crashing and burning — for science! On Dec. 1, 1984, scientists from NASA and the FAA took a passenger jet out to the desert and crashed it…
Death In Paradise star reveals he was infected with Zika while filming
By Simon Murphy for The Mail on Sunday Death In Paradise star reveals he was infected with Zika while filming in the Caribbean and claims ‘quite a lot’ of the infected Britons may have come from the cast of the…
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Cayman Dive Operators shore up 2017 tourism season at DEMA
Cayman Islands (November 30, 2016) – A successful trip to the annual Dive Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) show in Las Vegas November 16 – 19 helped Cayman’s dive operators get a jump on 2017. More than 10,000 dive industry…
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Inaugural Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Luncheon celebrates Cayman Islands’ women
The Cayman Islands celebrated Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) for the first time on Wednesday, November 30. The event was run by the partnership of the Ministry of Education, Employment & Gender Affairs; Cayman Islands Small Business Association; Ministry of Financial…
