On Monday morning, two Chinese coast guard vessels entered Japan’s territorial waters near the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, an East China Sea archipelago which is the subject of longstanding dispute between Beijing and Tokyo, NHK news reports. The ships entered the waters about 20km off the island of Minami Kojima at …
Read More »Ebola-like virus detected in Europe
Two people who have recently returned to the UK from Western Africa have been diagnosed with Lassa fever, an Ebola-like viral hemorrhagic disease, London confirmed on Wednesday. The cases were detected within the same family living in the east of England, the government said, adding that a third suspected case …
Read More »Chinese military aircraft detected in Taiwan airspace
Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense said the island’s combat air patrol were deployed, “radio warnings issued and air defense missile systems deployed to monitor the activity” of thirteen Chinese aircraft spotted in the southwestern part of the air defense identification zone (ADIZ). Beijing’s planes have made frequent flybys over the island, …
Read More »Covid ‘signature’ found: Swiss scientists say they detected ‘biomarker’ that helps predict severe coronavirus cases early
Detecting and treating life-threatening forms of the novel coronavirus disease before the acute symptoms kick in has been a challenge for medics since the start of the pandemic. Now, a team from the Swiss University of Zurich might have found a solution to this problem, a press release by the …
Read More »New ‘dangerous chemical’ leak detected at NUCLEAR WASTE site in Washington state
The leaking tank, located at the Hanford site in southeast Washington, just 8 miles west of the Columbia River, was announced on Thursday by the Energy Department. A breach in the 75-year-old storage reservoir was suspected more than a year ago but only confirmed recently, one of several decrepit tanks …
Read More »First cases of H5N8 bird flu strain detected in humans: Seven poultry workers in Southern Russia infected, reveals health watchdog
On Saturday, Anna Popova, the head of health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor told journalists that experts at the Vector Institute in Siberia had “isolated genetic material” from a new influenza variant. The samples they tested came from seven employees of a poultry farm in southern Russia, which registered a bird flu outbreak …
Read More »WADA has detected new cases of manipulation of data to the laboratory in Moscow
World anti-doping Agency (WADA) at the end of the past today the meeting of the Executive Committee reported the detection of new cases of manipulation of data in a Moscow laboratory. According to the report on the Agency’s website, after re-test of doping samples from the period between 2014 and …
Read More »In Windows 7 and XP detected dangerous vulnerability
Microsoft has released a patch that should resolve the problem in devices with outdated OS. Malware getting on the computer, blocking access to the data. In 2017 the victims WannaCry are thousands of computers in a hundred countries around the world. The total damage caused by malicious actions the virus …
Read More »In Telegram detected dangerous vulnerability
The reader of the Belarusian onliner.by Julia suddenly found a vulnerability in Telegram. She came to Canada and wanted to transfer my account to a local number while installing the application. But to the room that issued the operator was already tied an account Telegram: running the application and entering …
Read More »On Jupiter detected a potential volcano
Juno was at a distance of about 470000 kilometers from the satellite. The device Juno, which studied Jupiter using the instrument Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper, found a new heat source near the South pole of the moon IO that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on a small moon of …
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