Ukraine says work has started at three ports aimed at forming "green corridors" to allow grain exports, the BBC reports.
A spokesperson for the Odesa military administration said naval teams will build routes out of southern ports in Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi.
Once the routes are established, "caravans" of ships led by Ukrainian naval vessels will sail through the Black Sea, Serhiy Bratchuk said.
Kyiv and Moscow struck a deal to allow the grain exports last week.
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Researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have discovered key human genomic signatures that could help explain why COVID-19 is severe in some people and mild in others. After analyzing volumes of diverse worldwide DNA sequence data, the scientists identified mutations in two human proteins that might sway the course of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Their study reveals that variants in the genes for ACE2 and TMPRESS2 can lead to an increase or...
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it will once again drastically cut gas supplies to the EU through its main pipeline due to maintenance work.
Gazprom said stopping another turbine at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would cut daily gas delivery to 20%, halving the current level of supply.
The German government said there was no technical reason to limit gas supply.
It is likely to make it more difficult for EU countries to replenish their stores of...
The White House said Sunday it was confident authorities could "eliminate" monkeypox from the United States by speeding up the rollout of vaccinations and treatment to combat the virus's spread.
"I think monkeypox can be contained, absolutely," doctor Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response co-ordinator, told CBS News talk show "Face the Nation."
"We have acted swiftly," Jha said, pushing back against accusations that President Joe Biden's administration was caught flat-footed when the first cases began appearing...
A robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger during a chess match in Moscow last week, Russian news outlets report.
"The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. "This is of course bad."
A video shared on social media shows the robot taking one of the boy's pieces. The boy then makes his own move, and the robot grabs his finger.
Four adults rush to help the boy, who is...
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – About a decade ago, deep-learning models started achieving superhuman results on all sorts of tasks, from beating world-champion board-game players to outperforming doctors at diagnosing breast cancer.
These powerful deep-learning models are usually based on artificial neural networks, which were first proposed in the 1940s and have become a popular type of machine learning. A computer learns to process data using layers of interconnected nodes, or neurons, that mimic the human brain.
As...
(Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) – Nearly 6% of children who presented to the emergency department (ED) with COVID-19 reported symptoms of long COVID 90 days later, according to a study conducted in eight countries and published in JAMA Network Open. Initial hospitalization of 48 or more hours, four or more symptoms at the initial ED visit, and age 14 years or older were associated with long COVID.
"We found that in...
(Florida State University) – Virtually all marine life depends on the marine food web for survival. And the foundation of this immense flow of energy rests on the shoulders of the microscopic but mighty phytoplankton.
Without vital nutrients such as phosphorus, the growth of these tiny floating ocean plants is limited, and the effects of such limitation cascade through the ecosystem, affecting the abundance and diversity of sea creatures. A Florida State University and University of...
China has fined ride-hailing giant Didi 8.026 billion yuan ($1.2 billion USD) for breaking its cyber-security laws, reports the BBC.
On Thursday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said that it had found "conclusive evidence" against the company.
The regulator announced that it had started an investigation into Didi just days after the firm launched its shares in the U.S. last year.
Didi's shares have since stopped trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
The CAC also said it...
Russia's military focus in Ukraine is no longer "only" the east of the country, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supplied Ukraine with longer-range weapons, the BBC reports. Russia would now have to push Ukrainian forces further from the front line to ensure its own security, he said.
The U.S. had earlier accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of Ukraine.
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