Coral reef health
From University of Delaware UD researcher reports evidence that microbial algae found in Greater Caribbean originated from Indo-Pacific Ocean The University of Delaware’s Daniel (Tye) Pettay reports new evidence that Symbiodinium trenchii (S. trenchii), a stress-tolerant zooxanthellae alga found in…
Facts about chickens
From One Kind Chicken (Domesticated) Chickens feel empathy for each other. Researchers proved that domesticated hens show a clear physiological and behavioural response when their chicks are mildly distressed. Facts about chickens Domesticated chickens have been bred by humans from…
New theory on why men love breasts
By Natalie Wolchover from Livescience Men are programmed to like breasts, but it isn’t for the reasons scientists once thought. Why do straight men devote so much headspace to those big, bulbous bags of fat drooping from women’s chests? Scientists…
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The Editor speaks: Destruction, disruption, & dat noise
It was with some gloom I read the nearly 500 pages of the Proposed Cruise Berthing Facility – EIA Consultation June 2015 Report executed by The CIG appointed consultancy team – W.F. Baird & Associates Coastal Engineers Ltd., Smith Warner…
Cayman Islands coral nursery study published in global research journal
Scientists from the Central Caribbean Marine Institute (CCMI) and the University of Miami recently published an article in the scientific journal Endangered Species Research, describing the results of a study conducted in the Cayman Islands that focuses on optimizing the…
NASA responds to predictions of catastrophic asteroid impact and tsunami near Puerto Rico
From CARIBBEAN360 LONDON, England, Wednesday June 10, 2015 – End-of-time predictors have claimed that a massive asteroid hurtling towards Earth will destroy civilization as we know it in September. They are predicting a cataclysmic event that will trigger a major…
Saturn’s weirdest moon
Cassini spacecraft snaps new photos of Saturn’s weirdest moon By Miriam Kramer From Mashable This might just be the weirdest moon in the solar system. The Cassini spacecraft — which is winding down its time exploring Saturn and its many…
Why you should never drink whisky on the rocks
By Brad Cohen From BBC The Thirsty Explorer heads to the Scottish island of Islay where he learns the important differences between malt and whisky – and how to order it in a bar. The first time I tasted Scotch…
a glimpse at star birth
A red cloud of space gas is giving astronomers a glimpse at star birth By Miriam Kramer from Mashable A telescope in Chile recently captured a beautiful image of a star-forming region of the universe, where a red cloud of…
The doctor who got Ebola
By Helen Ouyang From New York Magazine Craig Spencer in May, seven months after contracting Ebola. Five months into West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, last September, a young New York emergency-room doctor named Craig Spencer headed to Guéckédou, Guinea, to volunteer…
