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More humidity and rain due to global warming

Submitted on 16 February 2007 - 10:00am

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Global warming will bring more intense cyclonic activity to the Caribbean, according to Doctor Jorge González, engineering professor at the University of California in Santa Clara and an expert in atmospheric phenomena analysis. The Greater Antilles can expect more rain, higher humidity and cloudiness levels. Meanwhile, the Lesser Antilles will have less precipitation, increasing draught periods in these islands, which are the ones with less water resources in the Caribbean, explained González.

A thriving biotech culture

Submitted on 14 February 2007 - 9:59am

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Puerto Rico has joined the ever-growing list of regions worldwide looking to capitalize on and learn from the Bay Area's successful life sciences economy, which created an estimated 6,000 new jobs here last year. The Island is home to 25% of the world’s pharmaceutical manufacturing, but in order to keep this leading position, Puerto Rico is moving towards becoming the Bio-Island, an economy less reliant on manufacturing, built instead on research and development. Northern California has a successful and thriving life sciences economy, which is why the governor Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá, together with the University Of Puerto Rico Antonio García Padilla, and executives from PRIDCO traveled to the Bay Area to learn about their life sciences industry.

Network for the Exchange of scientific literature

Submitted on 14 February 2007 - 9:52am

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Given how difficult it is to find articles on-line through the library, the Graduate Student Associations at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico has decided to start a support network for the exchange of scientific literature. The purpose of this project is to facilitate the acquisition of articles through a directory that includes the names and contact information of professors and/or students that have access to online journals and the name of those journals. This directory will be for the usage of students and faculty of Biomedical Sciences.

Fossil of a Puerto Rican crocodile discovered

Submitted on 14 February 2007 - 9:35am

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Paleontologists of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, leaded by Dr. Hernán Santos found a crocodile’s skull fossil in the San Sebastian formation, the most complete fossil of the Caribbean so far. Paleontological studies reveal that Puerto Rico used to have an endemic crocodile in the past, different from any other current species in the Hemisphere. These paleontologists found a gavial, animal that lived in the Island during the Late Oligocene (28.5 to 23.8 million years ago), in a time when the San Sebastian formation was at the coast and men did not existed yet. Currently, the San Sebastian formation is in the interior north, between Moca and Arecibo.

Discovery of the Puerto Rican ‘Eve’

Submitted on 14 February 2007 - 9:30am

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A scientific investigation, done by the geneticist specialized in molecular evolution, Juan Carlos Martínez Cruzado and the archeologist and anthropologist Juan José Ortiz Aguilú, has revealed that six out of ten Puerto Ricans has a mitochondrial DNA of Amerindian origin. These investigators traced 19 maternal lineages that seem to come from South America, specifically from the Amazonian area.

Government ignores climate change

Submitted on 14 February 2007 - 9:23am

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The Puerto Rican government has not created any conscience about the effect that global warming will have here and lacks a strategy to FACE the threat, which in the Island could cause an increase in the sea level, endangering constructions in coastal zones, as well as an increase in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Experts consulted by El Nuevo Dia, plus interviews with the functionaries that would have to take care of this problem, revealed that besides a vague idea of what global warming means, the Government has no plan.

In search of our natural history

Submitted on 13 February 2007 - 4:38pm

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Puerto Rican botanist Pedro Acevedo Rodríguez has taken on the hard task of publishing the paintings from the plant collection made by Agustin Stahl, an outstanding Puerto Rican scientist and naturalist. With the financial help of the Smithsonian Institute, Acevedo was able to publish on the Internet, at least 720 of these paintings. To see these paintings you can access the Smithsonian Institute's webpage.

To the final the best in arts and sciences

Submitted on 13 February 2007 - 4:28pm

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Nineteen of the best students in sciences and arts faced each other in the 4th Operation Success (Operación Éxito) competition, held at Puerto Rico’s Museum of Art. The winners of this edition were David Acevedo, of the José Santos Alegría school in Dorado; Kenny Ng, of the José Collado Colón school in Juncos; and Félix Rodríguez, of the Francisco García Boyrie school in Guayama. Operation Success is an interactive competition developed by the Casa Grande organization. It has the support of the Department of Education and sponsors like Banco Popular and El Nuevo Dia.

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