19 AUG 2021 We know that metabolism – the rate that we burn calories to keep our bodies running – changes as we age, but little is really known about the timeline of these changes. Now, a new study looking at metabolism across the generations has come up with some rather surprising …

17 AUG 2021 The summer doldrums are here for oil supertankers. Freight rates on the benchmark route from the Middle East to Asia have slipped to their lowest levels since March, meaning lower earnings for those vessels, Baltic Exchange data show. At the same time, ship-fuel costs have jumped. “Weak …

18 AUG 2021 Total of 275 ships were sold for scrap in the first half 2021 with the tanker sector leading the charge, according to a half-year demolition review by UK-based VesselsValue. The number represents a 40% and 33% increase compared to 2020 and 2019, respectively. The 275 scrapped vessels have a …

16 AUG 2021 The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and that humanity is almost entirely to blame. Here is a rundown of some of its key findings from the IPCC Working Group …

15 AUG 2021  On August 7, Cochin Shipyard held a long-awaited keel laying ceremony for a pair of autonomous, all-electric ro/ro cargo vessels for Norwegian grocery distributor Asko. Cochin, the builder of India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier and many of its other naval vessels, is experienced in complex shipbuilding. By …

14 AUG 2021  Attacks on information and communications technology infrastructure are becoming more common, as the recent spike in ransomware attacks affecting supply chains and the integrity of core information infrastructure has demonstrated. In fact, according to numerous reports, 2020 was a record-breaking year for cybercrime. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint …

13 AUG 2021 Since the 1970s, sex-selective abortions in China, India, and ten other nations have caused between 23 and 45 million women to go ‘missing’. By 2030, a new study predicts those very same nations will ‘lose’ another 4.7 million female births, skewing their sex ratios even more. This study uses a model based on …

13 AUG 2021  Last week, the captain of a product tanker was arrested at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus and sentenced to one month in jail for “unauthorized entries” to a port on the northern half of the island. Cypriot law enforcement officers arrested the master of the Maltese-flagged tanker Red Garnet, …

11 AUG 2021  UK outlet The Daily Express has reported that a team of UK SAS commandos and U.S. special operations forces are in Yemen to hunt Iranian-backed Houthi militants who allegedly launched the drone strike on the tanker Mercer Street on July 29. The attack killed the vessel’s Romanian …

13 AUG 2021 Lurking in the background of the quest for true quantum supremacy hangs an awkward possibility – hyper-fast number crunching tasks based on quantum trickery might just be a load of hype. Now, a pair of physicists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Columbia University in …