COVID-19 cases in GCC: 11 die in Saudi Arabia, 7 in Oman

[ad_1] Some 357 people tested positive in Kuwait on Tuesday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 142,992. Image Credit: Shutterstock Dubai: The overall COVID-19 infection count in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain has risen to 850,480 cases, while the total deaths have risen to 8,797. Kuwait …

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UN calls on Ethiopia for refugee access as food runs out

[ad_1] Addis Ababa (AFP) The United Nations pleaded with Ethiopia on Tuesday to allow aid for long-standing refugee camps in the northern region of Tigray, where nearly 100,000 people from neighboring Eritrea are believed to have run out of food. The appeal came as dissident leaders in Tigray claimed that …

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War may not fix Ethiopia’s ethnic puzzle

[ad_1] In the last decade alone, the number of international migrants has multiplied by almost six, a global mix of people like never before in recent history. All the more reason, then, to witness a new civil war in one of the most diverse nations in the world: Ethiopia. The …

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AI unravels one of the great challenges of biology

[ad_1] Google’s Deepmind stunned the world in 2016 when its AlphaGo program beat an elite human gamer on “Go.” For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out how to quickly predict the twisted and tangled shape of proteins and, from there, unravel a greater understanding of the machinery of …

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DeepMind AI predicts protein structures

[ad_1] Programs created by Google’s artificial intelligence company, DeepMind, have beaten humans who play chess, Go, and some Atari computer games. Biologists and computer scientists say the company has done the same with the protein folding puzzle. In an international competition, the company’s program predicted how proteins fold in three …

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