Salamanders hold clues to how humans could regrow limbs
By Max Yun, Research Fellow at University College London for The Conversation UK From Mashable Humans have some regenerative abilities but compared to creatures like the salamander, which has an amazing ability to regenerate after injury, we’re pretty limited. Not…
Drone Beat: 418 crashes worldwide, spying on a World Cup Team and more
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai From Mashable The U.S. government uses them to bomb alleged terrorists in far-away places, tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are all toying with the idea of using them commercially and, in recent months, they’ve become…
Genetically engineered ‘super bananas’ begin human trials
By Alex Magdalen From Mashable If bananas weren’t a super food before, these “super bananas” make a case for the fruit’s place among the nutritious elite. Bananas genetically engineered to improve the nutrient-deficient lives of millions in Africa will soon…
A massive great white shark just cruised into the Gulf of Mexico
From Caribbean360 FLORIDA, United States, Thursday June 19, 2014 – Katharine, a 14-foot-long, 2,300-pound great white shark is making her way steadily towards the Texas coast. The largest ever recorded great white was 21 feet long. Katharine, the great white…
Players with Caribbean roots at 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil
By Peter Jordens From Repeating Islands Natalie Weiner of LargeUp states that “while no Caribbean teams made it to football’s most important match this year, there are still plenty of representatives of the islands out on the field.” She has…
Last Friday was the 13th and a FULL MOON. That won’t happen again till 2049
By Colin Daileda From Mashable If you see a dude in an old-school hockey mask chasing a werewolf (or vice versa) on Friday, here’s why: Friday the 13th coincides with a full moon. Hide your kids. That said, only those…
LIVE EXPLOSION: A mountain top is about to get blown off to make way for a giant telescope
By Leslie Baehr From Business Insider PHOTO: Artist’s rendering of the future telescope which will be the ‘largest eye on the sky.’ On Thursday at 12:30 p.m. ET, the top of Cerro Armazones, a 10,000-foot mountain in northern Chile’s Atacama…
Bacterial suspects identified in Caribbean coral deaths
By Michael Marshall from New Scientist Three bacteria seem to be responsible for a disease that has killed most of the Caribbean’s reef-building corals. White band disease causes the outer layer of corals to turn white and peel off. First…
Britain’s ‘subculture’ of 15,000 vampires
By Keith Perry From The Telegraph Dr Emyr Williams, a psychology lecturer at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, said real vampires are a “global phenomenon” A psychology lecturer at a British university claims the UK has a population of some 15,000…
NASA captures crazy images of forest fire from space
Nasa Earth Observatory From Business Insider NASA Earth Observatory Spring came early to southern Alaska in 2014, bringing warm and dry weather. By the end of May, vegetation was already primed to burn. So when a fire broke out on…
