The British Army says it is investigating after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked, the BBC reports.
Videos on cryptocurrency using images of billionaire businessman Elon Musk appeared on the YouTube channel.
The Twitter feed appeared to retweet several posts related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – a type of digital asset held on a blockchain.
The Army confirmed the "breach", saying it took information security "extremely seriously" and was resolving the issue. Both accounts have been...
With crypto markets in turmoil, files seen by the BBC suggest an unlikely Bitcoin investor may have also lost a fortune – "the missing cryptoqueen", Dr. Ruja Ignatova.
The scammer disappeared in 2017 as her cryptocurrency OneCoin was at its height – attracting billions from investors. Fraud and money-laundering charges in the U.S. have led to her becoming one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives.
The Oxford-educated entrepreneur told investors she had created the "Bitcoin killer",...
A 15-year study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals and ore deposits, predict possible characteristics of future life, and aid the search for habitable planets and extraterrestrial life.
In twin papers published today by American Mineralogist and sponsored in part by NASA,...
Smell plays a key role in our ability to enjoy food. However, many people suffer from a lost, impaired, or distorted sense of smell, and this can affect health and quality of life, says a new study from Aarhus University in Denmark.
Losing your sense of smell or having it distorted affects more than your cooking and eating habits, says Alexander Wieck Fjældstad, associate professor, MD. He was part of establishing Denmark's first clinic for smell and taste, and is...
A crewless, robotic boat retracing the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has landed near Plymouth Rock.
The sleek Mayflower Autonomous Ship met with an escort boat as it approached the Massachusetts shoreline Thursday, more than 400 years after its namesake's historic journey from England, Tech Xplore reports.
It was towed into Plymouth Harbor – per U.S. Coast Guard rules for crewless vessels – and docked near a replica of the original Mayflower that brought the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost some of its power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major setback to President Joe Biden's climate plans, the BBC reports.
He called it a "devastating decision" but said it would not undermine his effort to tackle the climate crisis.
The case against the EPA was brought by West Virginia on behalf of 18 other mostly Republican-led states and some...
(BBC) – NATO member Turkey has agreed to support Sweden and Finland's proposed membership of the alliance.
Turkey had initially opposed the Scandinavian countries' bids to join, reportedly angered by what it saw as their willingness to host Kurdish militants. Sweden and Finland could not join NATO without Turkey's support.
Russia strongly opposes the two states joining and has used the expansion of the West's defensive military alliance as a pretext for its war in Ukraine.
But Moscow's...
(University of Western Ontario) – Many who experience what is now called "long COVID" report feeling brain fog, breathless, fatigued and limited in doing everyday things, often lasting weeks or months post-infection. Using functional MRI with inhaled xenon gas, researchers have identified for the first time that these debilitating symptoms are related to microscopic abnormalities that affect how oxygen is exchanged from the lungs to red blood cells.
The LIVECOVIDFREE study, based at five centres...
(USA Today) Though it is early in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, the number of storms is tracking behind the frenetic pace of 2021 and 2020.
But stay vigilant, forecasters say: the U.S. is likely to see above-average activity.
By this time in 2020 and 2021, there had already been four named storms in the Atlantic – up to the "D" names. There has been one named storm this year, according to Alan Reppert, senior meteorologist...
(University of Göttingen) Over the last two decades, microscopy has seen unprecedented advances in speed and resolution. However, cellular structures are essentially three-dimensional, and conventional super-resolution techniques often lack the necessary resolution in all three directions to capture details at a nanometer scale.
A research team led by Göttingen University, including the University of Würzburg and the Center for Cancer Research in the U.S., investigated a super-resolution imaging technique that involves combining the advantages of...
