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Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.19% is adding more content guardrails, a potential flashpoint with the company’s prospective new owner Elon Musk, who has said he wants the social-media platform to dial back on moderating tweets. The company said Thursday that it plans to slow what it deems misinformation around crises including armed conflicts, natural disasters and public health emergencies and elevate credible information. Twitter…

A number of monkeypox cases have been identified in recent days, mostly in young men in Europe. In Europe, infections have been reported in Britain, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.  On Wednesday, US officials reported one case of monkeypox in a man who had recently travelled to Canada, where authorities are investigating potential infections. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, there are thousands of monkeypox infections in about a dozen African countries…

Breadcrumb Trail Links World Author of the article: Publishing date: May 19, 2022  •  11 minutes ago  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation An image created during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1996 to 1997, shows the arms and torso of a patient with skin lesions due to monkeypox, in this undated image obtained by Reuters on May 18, 2022. Photo by Brian W.J. Mahy / CDC / Handout /REUTERS Article…

As the underlying cause of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders, there is considerable interest in deepening our understanding of chronic inflammation and the way it takes hold in the human body. Shedding new light on this is a new study from scientists in Japan and the US, who have identified a form of inter-neuron communication as a key mechanism in the way inflammation spreads between joints in conditions like arthritis.Led by scientists at Japan's Hokkaido University, the work began with a function of…

DACS tested on patient at Nagoya University Hospital. Credit: Junki Mikami (FUIGO)Device suitable for use in hospital wards, blood labs, and reception counters.In efforts to prevent the spread of <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>COVID-19</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome…

Three years after a mass shooting in New Zealand was live-streamed online, the spread of footage taken by the alleged shooter in Buffalo, N.Y., shows how social-media platforms still struggle to keep their platforms from being used to broadcast violent, extremist videos. The shooting rampage at a supermarket on Saturday, which left 10 people dead and three wounded, was broadcast on Twitch, a site owned by Amazon.com Inc. that specializes in live streaming. Three years after a mass…

Once thought to have originated and spread culturally from a single population in what's now the Middle East, farming drastically changed our world and continues to do so to this day, for both better and worse.  But ancient genomes suggest farming's beginning was far more complicated than a simple spread and adoption of a new culture and technology.The genomes of 15 newly sequenced humans who lived during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene (from around 10,000 to 7,000 years ago) along with 10 previously sequenced…

coronavirus impact business and economyMf3d | E+ | Getty ImagesOmicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 have been detected in more than a dozen countries, helping fuel sporadic Covid outbreaks across the world, but the heavily mutated strains are still circulating at low levels, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Less than 700 cases of BA.4 have been detected across at least 16 countries and more than 300 cases of BA.5 have been found across at least 17 countries, WHO's technical lead on Covid Maria Van Kerkhove said…

The way plastic moves through the environment and endangers living organisms is of great concern to scientists, and a first-of-a-kind study has unearthed disconcerting new information on both these fronts. The authors have demonstrated that the type of plastic particles shed through laundry cycles and use of cosmetic products can carry pathogens far out to sea and endanger marine life, reshaping natural food webs as a result.The study was carried out by scientists at University of California, Davis and focuses on what are…

Apple's prime supplier Foxconn Technology Group halted operations at two of its factories in eastern China's Kunshan after new COVID-19 cases were reported on site, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.The operations at those plants have been suspended since Wednesday last week, with all employees confined to dormitories inside, the report said.The two Foxconn plants, located at Dianfa and Fuhong in the northern part of Kunshan, are two of four manufacturing campuses operated in the city by the Taiwanese firm,…