Tag: National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation Wants Puerto Rican Youths To Study Natural Disasters

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — Scientists in Puerto Rico have secured grant funding from the National Science Foundation to teach students to develop their own scientific solutions to the challenges created by natural disasters affecting the region. Category four hurricanes Irma and Maria caused loss of life and mass devastation to the […]

Hurricane Maria Won’t Kill Arecibo’s Observatory, Now That University of Central Florida Is Managing It

[ad name=”HTML-68″] [wpedon id=”23995″ align=”left”] SAN JUAN — Arecibo Observatory, which is the second-largest radio telescope in the world, isĀ under new management. A group led by the University of Central Florida will take over the operations of the telescope from the National Science Foundation, which was considering shutting down the observatory. The telescope’s fate had […]

STUDY: Humans Are Primarily Responsible For The Extinction of Mammal Species In The Caribbean

MONK SEAL: An extinct Caribbean mammal species. [ad name=”HTML-68″] SAN JUAN — A Johns Hopkins paleontologist and her collaborative team of scientists report they have clear evidence that the arrival of humans and subsequent human activity throughout the islands of the Caribbean were likely the primary causes of the extinction of native mammal species there. […]