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04 October, 2018  An abandoned ghost ship that drifted into Myanmar’s waters in August has now sunk, officials said Tuesday. The ship, which has identified as the Indonesian-registered Sam Ratulangi PB 1600, was first spotted abandoned and adrift in late August near the mouth Sittoung River. Authorities boarded the vessel …

2 OCT 2018 For decades, scientists have had a tough time figuring out what artificial sweeteners are really doing to our bodies. To date, researchers have conducted over 210,000 different studies on the sugar substitutes. But despite all the research, we still know remarkably little about the health effects of the powdery …

02 October, 2018  A Lithuanian-flagged ferry carrying 335 people is powerless in the Baltic Sea but no one is reported injured, a spokesman for Danish ferry company DFDS told Reuters. “There was vibration and there was smoke, but no fire was noticed,” the spokesman said, contradicting earlier reports from the …

4 OCT 2018 Nobel Prize-winning scientist Donna Strickland did not have a Wikipedia page until she became a Nobel laureate, and earlier attempts to write a page for her were rejected because she was not famous enough. Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for breakthroughs in the field …

01 October, 2018  By Captain George Livingstone – One of my first columns of the year was on the state of the international maritime industry, I discussed a broad range of topics, one of which was a coming sea change in the world-wide manufacturing industry.  I would like to focus on that. History is replete …

6 OCT 2018 About a third of US adults don’t get enough sleep. And sleep deprivation has serious consequences for your brain and body. Many people think they can get by on less than seven to nine hours a night – the amount of sleep doctors recommend for most adults – or say they need …