24 SEPT 2023 A colossal study has revealed a variation of a gene involved in an immune response has been secretly giving protection to the billions who carry it from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Known as DR4, the variant, or allele, is part of a family of genes that normally help our immune system pinpoint and …
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23 SEPT 2023 Mysterious lights appear to have been spotted in Morocco before a devastating earthquake hit last week – and scientists still can’t figure out what caused them. A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the High Atlas Mountains in Eastern Morocco on Friday. At least 2,900 people have died and about 5,500 are reported injured, …
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22 SEPT 2023 The bulk carrier Gingo has become the first capesize ship to sail the Northern Sea Route, according to Russian media reports. Separately, a non-ice-strengthened tanker is currently conducting a transit—marking another first. The Gingo departed the Port of Murmansk on a 13-day eastbound voyage to China carrying 164,600 metric tons of iron ore …
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21 SEPT 2023 Since the beginning of 2023, sea robbery in the Singapore Strait has increased at an alarming rate. The 113-km long, 19-km wide strait that connects the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea is one of the world’s busiest commercial waterways through which approximately 1,000 ships pass every day. The strait …
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20 SEPT 2023 An intercepted ship-to-ship transfer raises a series of interlinked questions about sanctions, pollution and the reach of international law. The two giant freighters floated “dark” in the open ocean not far from Indonesia. Their positioning transponders switched off, neither tanker displayed a national flag – but one …
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19 SEPT 2023 Inside our bodies at every moment, our cells are orchestrating a complex dance of atoms and molecules that uses energy to create, distribute and deploy the substances on which our lives depend. And it’s not just in our bodies: all animals carry out this dance of metabolism, and it …
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