Permanent Secretary delivers feature address at Caribbean Youth Science Forum
From news.gof.tt Good Morning, ladies and gentlemen. Kindly accept the apologies of the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. the Honourable Rupert Griffith. Unfortunately, he could not be here with us this morning due to another national commitment. I would…
Turned turtle
By Alastair Savage The gales had turned the Caribbean grey. Aboard the launch, the scientists huddled under an awning. Gusts swept through the sides. Drops beat down on the canvas. Water swirled around its aluminium poles. Dr Murdoch shivered as…
Robot spacecraft snaps Uranus through rings of Saturn
By Colin Daileda From Mashable The robotic NASA spacecraft Cassini has been touring the solar system for 17 years now — and it just caught its first glimpse of one of the most remote planets. Cassini has been focused on…
Robots score on a human soccer team, humans retain control of the world
By Dylan Love From Business Insider Founded in 1997 with the ambitious goal to develop a robotic humanoid soccer-playing robot by 2050, the RoboCup is an annual robotics competition that sees robots play soccer against each other in an exercise…
Local firm [Grenadian] awarded first compete Caribbean Technical Assistance Grant in Grenada
Bridgetown, Barbados, July 23, 2014 – Grenadian firm, Protein From Waste and Local Crops Inc. (PFW), has successfully won a bid to demonstrate the viability of small scale protein rendering for animal feed supplementation, using locally available organic and fuel…
Scientists explain mystery of our ‘lemon Moon’
By James Vincent From The Independent A new accurate map of the Moon has shown that it bulges slightly at one side and is flattened at the top and bottom – but how did it get this way? It might…
Mediterranean anchovies caught in North Sea at Walton Pier
From BBC Anchovies are normally seen in shoals in the Mediterranean or other warm seas Shoals of fish that normally inhabit warm Mediterranean waters have been seen swimming in the North Sea off the Essex coast. Angler Richard Holgate, who…
Plant Health Directors from 34 countries meet in Cayman Islands
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands – Plant Health directors from 34 countries and territories in the Caribbean along with delegates from regional and international organisations, government entities and universities gathered here this morning to kick off the 7th Caribbean Plant Health…
Controversial research claims blacks age faster than whites
From Caribbean360 CALIFORNIA, United States, Friday July 25, 2014 – A controversial new study in the United States claims that black people age more quickly than white people. Published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, the study found that…
Explainer: why does the teenage brain need more sleep?
By Michelle A Miller – Associate Professor (Reader) in Biochemical Medicine at University of Warwick, and Francesco Cappuccio – Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology at University of Warwick From The Conversation Throughout our lives we experience changes in…
