Amad Ahmad Zirak

The data leak, dubbed as The Panama Papers, has exposed about 11.5 million documents exposing the web of corruption of several world leaders and families. With more than 2.6 terabytes of data, this leak of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca’s records has left behind the past data leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks.

While using offshore structures is entirely legal, alleged people are accused of using the offshore accounts to shell companies to allegedly hide income and save millions of dollars in taxes.

The Panama Papers were initially obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. From past one year, they were being investigated by 370 reporters of more than 100 publications from all around the world.

The documents that have leaked include passports, financial records, correspondence goings 40 years in history, and details of 214,000 offshore entities. This research by newspapers has already unearthed the names of 12 national leaders, including prime ministers, presidents, and monarchs.

“I would say, first observation, it’s a lot more promising than even some of the more, other projects that we’ve done that have turned out to be very, very big,” said Gerard Ryle, a director at the ICIJ.

A massive deposit of methane gas may have exploded in the craters surrounding the seabed caused by gas leaking from oil and gas deposits buried deep in the sea floor.

In the past two years, scientists have also documented methane gas bubbling up from the seafloor off the some parts of the west and the east coasts of the United States. One of the topics that need further analysis is whether methane gas explosions on the seabed could threaten the safety of ships.

This is not the fist time the possibility of methane gas eruptions in the Bermuda Triangle has been suggested. Last year a group of researchers led by Igor Yelstov of the Trofimuk Institute in Russia said that the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle were the effects of hydrant gas reactions. When the craters start to actively decompose, methane ice is transformed into gas.

If the theory of methane gas explosions being the cause of so many disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle proves to be correct, then we can chalk one up for science. But would the theory explain the magnetic anomalies associated with the area? It will be interesting to hear.

If you want to encourage the women in your life to pursue a career in science and tech, it’ll surely inspire them. These women have excelled in their work and accomplished so much to become distinguished.

In world-famous writer Virginia Woolf’s words:

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

These women are from different fields of science like biology, nuclear physics, biophysicists, space scientists and more.

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