(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...
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) — The quantum vibrations in atoms hold a miniature world of information. If scientists can accurately measure these atomic oscillations, and how they evolve over time, they can hone the precision of atomic clocks as well as quantum sensors, which are systems of atoms whose fluctuations can indicate the presence of dark matter, a passing gravitational wave, or even new, unexpected phenomena.
A major hurdle in the path toward better quantum...
Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in the 1985 Air India terrorist bombings, was killed Thursday in what police described as a targeted shooting in Surrey, B.C., The Globe & Mail reports.
His son, Jaspreet Singh Malik, confirmed his father’s death in a social media post, as did a Facebook account run by a school founded by the Malik family.
Malik was among three people charged with the Air India bombings on June 23, 1985, which...
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has tendered his resignation after populist coalition partner Five Star withdrew its support in a confidence vote.
The former head of the European Central Bank has led a unity government since February 2021.
In a statement, he said the pact of trust that had sustained the unity government had gone.
However, the president refused to accept his resignation.
President Sergio Mattarella appointed Draghi to lead Italy's post-COVID pandemic recovery, and save the country...
(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) — A new study finds that signs of covert consciousness — subtle brainwaves detectable with electroencephalography (EEG) — are the strongest predictor of eventual recovery for brain-injured patients who otherwise appear unresponsive.
The findings suggest brainwave analysis has the potential to completely change how unresponsive patients with acute brain injury are managed.
The study was published online in Lancet Neurology.
"One of the most difficult challenges in ICU care is determining whether an unresponsive...
