Philippe Matthews Show Guru Advice, Author Reviews, Tech Reviews, Entertainment News

Food fried in olive or sunflower oil not linked to heart disease, study of Mediterranean diet finds

By Philip Pullella ROME, Jan 16 (Reuters) - As the Costa Concordia shifted dangerously on Monday, Italy's environment minister raised the prospect of an environmental disaster if the 2,300 tonnes of fuel on the half-submerged cruise ship leaks. The ship's fuel tanks were full, having just left the port of Civitavecchia, north of Rome, for a week-long Mediterranean cruise, when it ran aground on Friday

Passengers opting for seven-night Mediterranean cruises on Norwegian Cruise Line's 4,100-passenger, 155,873-ton Norwegian Epic next summer will for the first time be able to choose where they embark.

By Naomi Lubick of Nature magazine Two small, mobile torpedo-shaped buoys plying the waters of the Mediterranean Sea have captured the seismic signature of a magnitude-7 earthquake occurring some 10,000 kilometers away. [More]

By Naomi Lubick of Nature magazine Two small, mobile torpedo-shaped buoys plying the waters of the Mediterranean Sea have captured the seismic signature of a magnitude-7 earthquake occurring some 10,000 kilometers away. [More]

In places where power is scarce and refrigerators are scarcer, scientists have found ways to power the ice box with the heat of the sun. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees. But despite its intense heat, it's being used to do something paradoxical: provide refrigeration (apologies to They Might Be Giants).

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Tinkering with male mosquitoes so that they cannot produce sperm is a promising way to control the spread of the malaria-carrying insects in the wild. Researchers had been concerned that female Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes might not be fooled into mating with the spermless males, but lab tests show that they are just as attracted to sterile males as to normal ones1

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it was building a 1.5 billion shekel ($423 million) desalination plant, which upon completion in 2013, will join four other plants in providing the country with three-quarters of its drinking water.

A luxury fast planning yacht built by Cantieri de Pisa in 1996 and fully renovated and refurbished in 2004, has been designed down to the finest detail to offer to her 8-12 guests an exhilarating combination of luxury, comfort and peak performance, cruising the Mediterranean waters at a speed of 26 knots. Accommodation is offered in 5 staterooms.

Charter WILD THYME, the only Benetti Classic 120 in the Mediterranean available for charter, is now available throughout the Western Mediterranean this summer.

On most megayacht charters, adventure means motoring from one idyllic Caribbean cove to another, or hopping among the Mediterranean’s most glamorous ports of call for cocktail hour. But a new breed of explorer yachts is bringing the same level of comfort and service one might find in Monte Carlo to ...

On October 1, 2009, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., a wrecking crew arrived at the gates of a Mediterranean palazzo with Gothic windows and a massive swallowtail battlement that would have been more appropriately perched on a promontory above the Grand Harbour in Malta than nestled on this suburban parcel. But ...

With only a handful of courses scattered across its parched, garrigue-carpeted landscape, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is not the first place that comes to mind as a warm-weather golfing destination for Europeans. Overshadowed by Spain and even Morocco and Tunisia, this divided 3,572-square-mile island—Cyprus is split between the Greek-controlled ...