04 JAN 2021 On New Year’s Eve, the far western reaches of the Aleutian Islands were rocked by the most powerful storm ever recorded in the North Pacific – the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane if it had occurred in the tropics. Two days in advance, the National Weather …
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05 JAN 2021 In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project. According to various accounts, the conversation turned to aliens and the recent spate of UFOs. Into …
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06 JAN 2021 Scientists in the UK have just recruited the first participants in the world to be part of a new long-acting antibody study. If the treatment is effective, it could give those who have already been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 protection from developing COVID-19. “We know that this antibody combination can neutralise …
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04 JAN 2021 Around a third of the Australian population have trouble sleeping, including difficulties maintaining sleep throughout the night. While nighttime awakenings are distressing for most sufferers, there is some evidence from our recent past that suggests this period of wakefulness occurring between two separate sleep periods was the norm. Throughout …
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02 JAN 2020 The first newly built cruise ship for Carnival Cruise Lines, which was launched at a critical moment in the development of the modern cruise ship industry, has ended its 38-year career. Introduced in 1982 as the Tropicale, this pioneering cruise ship has been beached at the scrapyards in …
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31 DEC 2020 2020 was a year for the record books, and it was challenging for every sector of the maritime industry. The most popular news stories of this year show readers’ close attention to the particularly severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cruise industry, as onboard outbreaks, port closures …
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29 DEC 2020 A Russian trawler went down in the Barents Sea in icing conditions on Monday, and 17 members of her crew remain missing. At about 0730 hours Monday (28TH Dec), Russian emergency services received notice that the trawler Onega sank suddenly in the Barents Sea off Novaya Zemlya. Heavy ice …
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The cruise ship Carnival Vista floats aboard the semisubmersible heavy lift ship Boka Vanguard, July 2019. The Vanguard served as a temporary substitute for a drydock while work on the Vista was completed. 03 JAN 2021 As 2020 draws to a close and the 2021s approach, it is a good …
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02 JAN 2021 Pick a color – any color? Blue, green, brown or gray. Those are the colors assigned to the various forms of hydrogen depending on how it’s produced. Hydrogen has suddenly become the Superman of renewable energy. Rather than saving Metropolis, it’s needed to save the world from …
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01 JAN 2021 2020 was a year for the record books. The industry dealt with a global pandemic, a crew change crisis, a record-setting hurricane season, an oil market downturn, a complete halt on cruising, and (on the upside) a highly profitable moment for ocean carriers. Our editorial contributors shared …
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