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An Australian journalist has reported that passengers on a round-the-world cruise this year had to spend 10 nights with the ship darkened. Curtains were drawn, and there weren’t any evening festivities on deck on the Sea Princess as she travelled through the the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden …

Widespread coastal flooding would be expected if several degrees of warming are sustained for millennia. Map of the Earth with a six-meter sea level rise represented in red. By D.C. Anderson 2017-08-11 21:34:52 The world’s merchant fleet is the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, behind China, America, India, …

Passwords suck. They’re hard to remember, we all have about a million of them, and they’re not supposed to be anything easy or memorable like your cat’s name. Worst of all, when massive data breaches happen to the companies we actually trust with our online credentials, our usernames and passwords can become totally …

If you think using an artificial sweetener helps keep your weight down, think again. Artificial sweeteners combined with a low-carbohydrate diet may increase overall food consumed, according to a study published in the journal Cell Metabolism. The finding expands on previous research that explained why artificial sweeteners increase feelings of hunger when consumed …

If you have seen or read The Martian, you may recall the stranded astronaut converting a hydrogen-based fuel into water. Well, we may have just discovered material that easily reverses this process. Researchers at the US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Research Laboratory were developing a high-strength aluminium alloy when they made a startling discovery. …

Scientists have discovered a new difference between the sexes: women’s brains seem to be more active than men’s brains, in terms of blood flow through specific regions. It doesn’t mean women can be labelled smarter or deeper thinkers, but it could give us clues to treating brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and …

  9 AUG 2017 A perfect storm of technology and the public’s demand for knowledge are driving a surge towards open access (OA) science and academia that anyone can read for free. Now, the researchers behind Unpaywall – a browser plug-in that helps you find free, legal copies of academic papers – have conducted …

Three Carnival Corp. cruise lines – Princess Cruises, P&O and Cunard – have announced that they will begin offering ceremonies at sea for same-sex marriages.  The decision follows a landmark Bermuda court decision allowing same-sex marriages on the island nation. Most of the three lines’ vessels are Bermuda-flagged, and same-sex couples will …

Panama’s government has approved a proposal to modify the Panama Canal tolls structure which could see container ships paying less and LNG and LPG carriers paying more. The new structure, scheduled to go into effect on October 1, 2017, at the beginning of the Canal’s fiscal year, comes following a …

8 AUG 2017 Clinical trials have begun for ViaCyte’s PEC-Direct, an implant  that grows insulin-producing cells from stem cells to treat type 1 diabetes patients. If successful, the implant could eliminate the need for these patients to inject themselves with insulin. The World Health Organisation reports that more than 422 million …