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Training Bermudians in science will continue despite the departure of the Government laboratory’s director, the Cabinet Office has said. A spokeswoman added that the coronavirus pandemic also highlighted how courses could be added at the Bermuda Coll...

A US scientist who helped the island in its fight against the Delta wave of the coronavirus will be the new head of the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, the Government announced last night. Pradeep Ambrose, a virologist, will replace Car...

Bermuda was in the spotlight over the weekend in a US TV segment that featured an island scientist and a centuries-old sea mystery. The island’s position on the edge of the Sargasso Sea brought a CBS crew to the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences to...

Researchers in the US have warned that the 2022 hurricane season could continue the trend of busier-than-average periods. Climate scientists at Colorado State University predicted there could be 15 to 18 named storms, including nine to 11 hurricanes....

As Covid-19 cases soared to their highest levels in September, the Bermuda Government was already looking overseas for help. Cases of the virus skyrocketed from 290 at the start of the month to 1,238 by September 14. The island’s fourth wave of infec...

Scientists have discovered a new species of fish – described as a “living fossil” – in the deep waters off Bermuda. Polymixia hollisterea – a species of spiny-rayed beardfish – was named in honour of Gloria Hollister, a pioneering female marine b...

Efforts to restore the island’s seagrass beds have made slow but steady progress, according to new report. According to the winter edition of the Department of Environment and Natural Resource’s (DENR) Envirotalk newsletter, measures to protect seagr...

A scientist’s hunch nine months ago put the island’s Covid-19 test programme ahead of the curve in quickly tracking the Omicron variant of the virus. The new strain was second-guessed earlier this year by Bermudian geneticist Carika Weldon of the Mol...

Two scientists at the Bermuda Institute for Ocean Science are set to leave Bermuda’s warm waters for the Arctic as part of an international study. According to the November edition of BIOS’s Currents newsletter, Becky Garley and Matt Enright, BIOS re...

A prize for experimental physics has been awarded to the husband of a retired Bermudian judge in the UK. Bucker Dangor, married to Patricia Dangor, a former UK circuit judge and a former member of the Bermuda Court of Appeal, was awarded the 2021 Mic...

Three research programmes at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences have been given new funds to continue their work. The Bermuda Bio-Optics Programme was awarded cash by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Hydrostation S was ba...

A 60-year-old US Navy submersible that carried out the first survey of the tragic liner Titanic yesterday took the waters off St George. The boat completed its first round of tests after a major refit designed to boost its performance. The mini-subma...