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.
Russia...
The U.S. Department of Justice has seized $500,000 worth of Bitcoin from suspected North Korean hackers.
The hackers attacked healthcare providers with a new strain of ransomware, extorting the funds from several organizations, the BBC reports.
U.S. authorities say they have returned ransom payments to two hospital groups. The rare successful seizure comes as U.S. officials warn that North Korea is becoming a major ransomware threat.
In a conference on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco praised an unnamed...
A collaborative project between Western University Engineering and Michigan Tech University was successful in building a 3D-printed, functional surgical fracture table at a fraction of what it would normally cost.
Their work was published in the journal PLOS ONE, outlining step-by-step techniques to build a functionally comparable operating table using open-source hardware and 3D printing.
The study could have significant impact in the developing world, where the financial burden of medical equipment is a barrier to universal health-care access. The capital...
University of Toronto researchers in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have grown a small-scale model of a human left heart ventricle in the lab. The bioartificial tissue construct is made with living heart cells and beats strongly enough to pump fluid inside a bioreactor.
In the human heart, the left ventricle is the one that pumps freshly oxygenated blood into the aorta, and from there into the rest of the body. The new lab-grown model could...
