Florida Hospital first to implant new FDA-approved Sutureless Aortic Valve
Miami, Fla. (October 31, 2016) – Palmetto General Hospital is the first hospital in Florida and third in the United States to commercially implant a sutureless aortic valve in a patient with heart valve disease through a newly FDA-approved, minimally…
Habitable planet?
Researcher: Planet orbiting nearest star to Earth may be ocean-covered body From Wn.com NASA believes the planet orbiting the nearest star to Earth could be an ocean-covered body and may be habitable, VOA News reported Wednesday. The rocky Proxima b,…
3 hurricanes from space
This is what three hurricanes look like from space BY MIRIAM KRAMER A new video from NASA shows all three powerful hurricanes currently churning waters on Earth as seen by the International Space Station in one day. Two hurricanes in…
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Latin America and the Caribbean at the forefront of climate action
By Matilde Mord From UNDP In this blog series, UNDP experts share their perspectives in the lead-up to the next climate summit, COP22, taking place in November in Marrakech, Morocco. Latin American and Caribbean countries have long been at the…
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Caribbean mobile entrepreneurs urged to participate in Canadian government funded project
From Antigua Observer KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 29, CMC –Regional mobile entrepreneurs are being given an opportunity to compete for a share of US$75,000 and be recognized as some of the top tech talent in the region under a project aimed…
Viral obituary wrongly declares Great Barrier Reef as dead
BY MARIA GALLUCCI From Mashable The bad news: 22 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has died. The good news is, relatively speaking, that the rest of the 1,400-mile-long coral reef is alive — severely threatened, yes, but not yet…
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Why did the Galaxy Note 7 explode? Samsung won’t tell us anytime soon
By Chris Smith From BGR The Galaxy Note 7 is both the best smartphone Samsung has ever made and its biggest scandal. Multiple Galaxy Note 7 explosions lead to a first recall, which was not sufficient to fix the manufacturing…
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Prospects good for agriculture in Cayman Islands – Premier
From CARICOM Today With new technologies and a greater understanding of the science involved in agriculture, the Cayman Islands was now “more than capable” of being self-sustaining in some crops, Premier of Cayman Islands, the Hon. Alden McLaughlin said Wednesday….
Gadget of the week
Infrared implant brings practical sight to the blind By Jon Fingas From engadget You can already get a retinal implant to restore some sight when you’re blind, but the quality is usually too poor to be useful for more than…
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US institute to honour Caribbean American stalwarts
From Jamaica Observer WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) — The Institute of Caribbean Studies (ICS) will present its annual Caribbean American Heritage (CARAH) Awards to nine Caribbean American stalwarts excelling in science, business, advocacy, technology and the arts on November 18…
