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09 JUN 2023 Figuring out how to enhance a person’s mental capabilities has been of considerable interest to psychology and neuroscience researchers like me for decades. From improving attention in high-stakes environments, like air traffic management, to reviving memory in people with dementia, the ability to improve cognitive function can have far-reaching …

08 JUN 2023  There is growing consensus that shipping must rapidly decarbonize to keep global warming below the critical threshold of 1.5C, and that switching to green fuels is the best way to achieve this. Though zero-carbon fuels, such as methanol and ammonia, are on the horizon, they aren’t yet …

07 JUNE 2023 Most people are familiar with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, but some conditions are so rare that many psychiatrists won’t come across a single case in their professional lives. Here I present five of the rarest – and strangest – syndromes known to psychiatry. Fregoli syndrome …

06 JUNE 2023  Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 turbines must be installed each year until 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5 ?. Without more investment in anchor technology to streamline installation, the potential of floating wind …

05 JUNE 2023  Canada’s oldest vessel operating on the Great Lakes may have had her career come to an unceremonious end Tuesday night, May 23, after a fire broke out in the engine room of the 80-year-old Cuyahoga. The vessel was towed to port today and so far, her owners, Lower …

02 JUN 2023  The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier for 90 days reporting that it had found a “plethora of detainable deficiencies” after a recent inspection that also resulted in a detention. According to the safety organization the vessel was identified to be a “high-risk …

01 JUN 2023  The team for the UN-backed salvage effort of the decaying offshore oil storage tanker FSO Safer (406,000 dwt) arrived in Yemen today, May 30, to begin the operation that plans to transfer the more than one million barrels of crude oil from the decaying tanker. Boskalis and the team …

31 MAY 2023  The Norwegian-owned VLCC Heroic Idun, which had been detained in Nigeria for 10 months over allegations of oil theft, has been released after its owner fulfilled the conditions of a plea bargain agreement. The Nigerian Navy announced the official release and handing over of the VLCC. Last August, Heroic Idun was …

04 JUN 2023 A decades-old global environmental pact has averted huge amounts of sea ice loss in the Arctic, new research shows. Banning ozone-depleting gases under the historic 1987 Montreal Protocol has delayed the first, feared ice-free Arctic summer by as much as 15 years, the study found – once again demonstrating …

03 JUN 2023 Lloyd’s Register has told India’s Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major carrier of Russian oil since the Ukraine war, that it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June 3, the maritime services company told Reuters. It is the latest setback for Gatik, …