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South American elephant seals have died in large numbers because the avian influenza virus acquired mutations that allowed it to spread among mammals, according to a new study.The research offers the first genetic and epidemiological evidence of avian influenza virus transmission between mammals. And the findings contain a warning: The virus, called H5N1, could similarly mutate to cause large-scale infections in other mammal species, including people.The avian influenza virus is responsible for an ongoing epidemic among dairy cows in the United States. Since March, it has been detected in cows in 11 states and wastewater in several others.The virus may already be spreading from cow to cow, but federal officials have said the most likely explanation for the outbreak is that it is spreadin...

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NORMANDY — President Biden marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy on Thursday, saying the allied effort to resist Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a direct extension of the battle for freedom that has raged in all of Europe during World War II.Addressing 180 surviving Normandy veterans and thousands of other guests, Biden said the world must defeat another “tyrant bent on domination” and stand “the test of time” to defend Ukraine, just like the heroes who they stormed the beaches and dropped behind enemy lines eight decades ago.“Isolation wasn't the answer 80 years ago and it's not the answer today,” Biden said, with World War II veterans sitting in wheelchairs behind him. “We know the dark forces these heroes fought against 80 years ago; they never fa...

Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, arranged in chronological order, the first survey of the career of innovative net artist Auriea Harvey tells a story about mortality and survival.In Harvey's treasure chest worlds, there are no heroes or villains, only people, forgiving and loving, caught in the wake of technology.Harvey, born in 1971 in Indianapolis, helped expand the perspectives of digital art: utopias, games, accidents and everything in between. In the 1990s, he created revolutionary images with GIFs, Shockwave animations, and the HTML and Java programming languages. His lavish personal website, Entropy8.com, restored for the show, won Webby Awards in 1997 and '98.In recent years, Harvey has turned to sculpting fictional yet ...

The men sat in rows, handcuffed and blindfolded, unable to see the Israeli soldiers who stood watch over them from the other side of a mesh fence.They were barred from talking more loudly than a murmur, and forbidden to stand or sleep except when authorized.A few knelt in prayer. One was being inspected by a paramedic. Another was briefly allowed to remove his handcuffs to wash himself. The hundreds of other Gazan detainees sat in silence. They were all cut off from the outside world, prevented for weeks from contacting lawyers or relatives.This was the scene one afternoon in late May at a military hangar inside Sde Teiman, an army base in southern Israel that has become synonymous with the detention of Gazan Palestinians. Most Gazans captured since the start of the war on Oct. 7 have been...

A panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration voted Wednesday to update the COVID-19 vaccine formula ahead of a planned fall immunization campaign, now an annual step to try to offer better protection against circulating versions of the virus.The unanimous vote of 16 advisers recommends a formula aimed at combating the JN.1 variant, which dominated infections in the United States in February, or a version of it. In recent weeks, JN.1 has been overtaken by descendants known as KP.2 and KP.3.In the coming weeks, the FDA is expected to formally recommend a target variant to vaccine makers for the next round of vaccinations in late summer or early fall. Any decision involves some educated guesswork, given that any new vaccine formula won't be available until months after a vari...

A professional skier and his girlfriend died when they fell more than 2,000 feet while climbing a mountain in the Italian Alps, the country's sports officials said.The death of the two, Jean Daniel Pession and Elisa Arlian, was denounced by FISI, the Italian winter sports federation, which defined the episode as an "accident" and a "terrible tragedy".Mr Pession and Ms Arlian, both Italian, on Saturday were climbing a ridge dividing the east and north faces of Monte Zerbion, a mountain in the Pennine Alps that they both knew well. As often happens on climbs of this type, they were tied together. They were alone, so it's not known exactly how or why they fell.When his family reported his disappearance, rescuers started searching. A helicopter equipped with equipment capable of det...

Electric cars are more expensive than petrol ones, mainly because the batteries cost a lot. But new technology could turn these expensive devices into an asset, offering owners benefits such as reduced utility bills, lower rents or free parking.Ford Motor, General Motors, BMW and other automakers are exploring how electric car batteries could be used to store excess renewable energy to help utilities manage fluctuations in energy supply and demand. Automakers would earn money by acting as intermediaries between car owners and energy suppliers.Millions of cars could be thought of as a huge energy system that, for the first time, will be connected to another huge energy system, the electric grid, said Matthias Preindl, associate professor of power electronic systems at Columbia University....

Wandering alone along the southern fringes of Saudi Arabia’s mountainous Asir Province, some eight miles from the Yemeni border, in a nondescript town with a prominent sculpture of a rifle balanced on an ornately painted plinth, I met a man, Nawab Khan, who was building a palace out of mud.Actually, he was rebuilding the structure, restoring it. And when I came across him, he hadn’t yet begun his work for the day; he was seated on the side of the road beneath its red-and-white windows — cross-legged, on a rug, leaning over a pot of tea and a bowl of dates.Two weeks earlier, on the far side of the country, a fellow traveler had pointed at a map and described the crumbling buildings here, in Dhahran al-Janub, arranged in a colorful open-air museum. Finding myself nearby, I’d detoured to have...

One of the nation's leading medical advisory organizations has weighed in on long-term Covid with a 265-page report that recognizes the severity and persistence of the condition for millions of Americans.More than four years into the coronavirus pandemic, long Covid continues to harm many people's ability to function, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a nongovernmental institution that advises federal agencies on subject of science and medicine.“Long Covid can impact people across the lifespan, from children to older adults, as well as across sex, gender, racial, ethnic and other demographic groups,” he said, concluding that “the Long Covid is associated with a wide range of new or worsening health conditions and includes more than 200 sympt...