Nasa Mars Curiosity rover ships back detailed crater images
NASA’s Curiosity rover has shipped back to Earth high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars, sharpening our views of an intriguing channel, layered buttes and a layer of cobbles and pebbles embedded in a finer matrix of material. The…
NASA mission gives a peek of rover’s Mars journey
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA’s latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape. It opened a window into the trip itself, from video footage of the landing to a photo of…
Turtle Tragedy on Public Beach in Cayman Brac
Despite pleas to Public Works and Government officials in Cayman Brac protesting brightly lit Public Beach, it became a tragic scene for 133 baby Loggerhead Turtles emerging from their nest on Sunday morning. In the early morning hours, a local…
Refuting potential downsides to stem cell drug court ruling
From Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Blog There was a burst of feeling last night (25) in the stem cell community as word began circulating that a federal court had ruled in favor of the FDA defining manipulated stem cell products…
Is Your Relationship with Trees on the Rocks?
By Sarene Marshall, The Nature Conservancy Given my work for a global conservation organization and my residence in a neighborhood filled with massive oaks, maples and hickories, it shouldn’t be surprising that my family and I are fond of trees….
Young Brac scientist steeped in mosquito research and control
Danielle Ryan, a graduate research officer at the Mosquito Research and Control Unit in Cayman Brac has set her sights high. The twenty-four year-old budding scientist has been employed with the MRCU on the Brac since 1 December 2011 and…
This Is Your Ocean – Sharks
“This is Your Ocean – Sharks”, the award-winning and internationally-acclaimed shark documentary starring Guy Harvey, Wyland and Jim Abernethy, is now available for purchase for the first time. Three of the world’s top artists shatter your perception of sharks in…
Insight: Dengue vaccine in sight, after 70 years
One of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue, the intensely painful “breakbone fever” which that conflict helped spread around the world, may be in sight….
Scenes from a celebration told in pictures
Further to our incredible story in iNews Cayman’s July 5th publication under the title “Higgs boson-like particle discovery claimed at LHC” see: http://www.ieyenews.com/2012/07/higgs-boson-like-particle-discovery-claimed-at-lhc/, our friends at TechRepublic. have published an article by CNET News.com showing the celebratory story, by way…
Scientists gather in Kingstown to examine and advise on the state of the region’s major fisheries
The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), a regional fisheries organization of seventeen (17) Member States spanning the Caribbean region, concluded its 8th Scientific Meeting on June 30th, 2012 in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Every year, the CRFM scientific…
