25 JULY 2022 A luxury cruise firm, a disputed family inheritance, and a Monaco-based tycoon fighting to protect his fortune. It sounds like the summary of the latest must-watch streaming drama, but it’s in fact a clash that’s been playing out for real over more than two decades. It’s centered …
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24 JULY 2022 Menstrual cycles are a somewhat forgotten vital sign of health – not unlike pulse, breathing rate and body temperature, but far less talked about. Except in early 2021, when people started noticing that they had heavier than usual, or unexpected, menstrual bleeding after getting vaccinated against COVID-19. Although these changes …
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23 JULY 2022 Distrust of science is a massive problem. In our current environment, it’s directly leading to people’s deaths. Much of the misinformation we face is intentional and organized, and even worse, research has found lies seem to spread faster online and are often stickier than the truth. So psychologist Aviva Philipp-Muller, now at Simon Fraser …
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22 JULY 2022 The UK MAIB has published a report on the death of a chief officer who was struck in the head by a tensioned mooring line aboard a bulker in 2021, finding that a short-handed operation and an unfamiliarity with the mooring arrangement contributed to his death. On …
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18 JULY 2022 The Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea is shipping more than 50 times the volume of food it usually does at this time of year, likely indicating that seized Ukrainian grain is being taken abroad, according to analysts and the Kyiv School of Economics. The port of Sevastopol shipped …
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21 JULY 2022 We’ve known for some time that anxiety runs in families, but research now suggests that anxiety disorders are passed down from mother to daughter and that having a father without anxiety protects sons from developing the condition. Researchers looked at the role of nature versus nurture in the development …
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20 JULY 2022 There’s a new coronavirus variant traveling around this summer at a record clip. It’s a variant of Omicron called BA.5, and it’s causing a stir largely because it has evolved even further away than other Omicron variants did from the coronavirus we already knew. Previously, getting infected with Omicron …
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19 JULY 2022 Some people experiencing debilitating long COVID symptoms have spent tens of thousands of euros traveling across Europe to access a ‘blood-washing’ procedure that is experimental and unproven. ‘Blood washing’, or apheresis, involves extracting a person’s blood, filtering the blood to remove lipids and inflammatory proteins, and reinfusing …
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18 JULY 2022 More reporting today that the Indonesian Navy is seizing ships and holding captains for allegedly anchoring illegaly in its waters. The captain of a fuel tanker arrested by the Indonesian navy in May on suspicion of illegally anchoring in its waters has been jailed for 15 days and fined 200 …
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17 JULY 2022 As global industry wrestles with the challenges of delivering the energy transition, significant attention has been focused on the production of cleaner energy from renewable sources to fuel sweeping decarbonization efforts. However, if any net zero or global warming targets are to be met, we also need …
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