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Amazon to launch first 2 satellites of Project Kuiper for high-speed internet in 2022

Sandhya Ramesh -
While the first two satellites are scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2022, the final constellation will consist of 3,236 satellites.
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Short-sleepers are more likely to suffer from irregular and heavy periods

Kat Kennedy -
We analysed survey data from 574 menstruating females from age 24 to 40.
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Is ‘Dune’ scientifically plausible? We ran a climate model to find out

Alex Farnsworth -
Dune, the epic series of sci-fi books by Frank Herbert, now turned into a movie, is set in the far future on the desert planet of Arrakis.
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Is brushing your teeth for two minutes enough? What the evidence says

Josefine Hirschfeld -
The aim of brushing our teeth is to reduce as much plaque on each tooth as possible.
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Imagine 34 Mount Everests stacked together — that’s the depth of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Sandhya Ramesh -
NASA's Juno flew over the Great Red Spot twice, in February and July 2019, and helped astronomers gain new insights about the Jupiter storm.
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NASA telescope may have just helped find the first planet spotted outside Milky Way

Sandhya Ramesh -
The potential planet is located 28 million light years away, in the Messier 51 (M51) galaxy. It is thought to be the size of Saturn, orbiting its host — a neutron star or a black hole.
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After years of poaching, elephants in Africa are now evolving to be tuskless

Sandhya Ramesh -
Princeton University researchers sequence genome of tuskless & tusked elephants to deduce which genes are responsible for rapid spread of tuskless female elephants in Mozambique.
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More accurate way to predict who will develop Alzheimer’s disease – new study

Marco Bucci -
With the fast progression of research in biomarkers, we are quickly getting better at measuring and detecting early signs of Alzheimer’s.
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Death in space — here’s what would happen to our bodies

Tim Thompson -
After death here on Earth the human body progresses through a number of stages of decomposition.
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A distant dead star is offering us a glimpse into the future of our Solar System

Joshua W. Blackman -
In a new study published in Nature, we get a glimpse of the time when the Sun will burn through all its hydrogen fuel and become a white dwarf.
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1991 reforms shifted burden of healthcare costs from govt to people. PM-JAY reversed it

Ashwani Mahajan -
After LPG, out-of-pocket expenditure on health facilities increased not only in absolute terms but also as a percentage of total health expenditure.

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Economy

How businesses can become more resilient to the physical impacts of climate change

Swenja Surminski -
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.

Defence

Germany, Spain await key decision as Navy seeks proven tech for submarines to stay underwater longer

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Navy is looking to acquire six new submarines with Air Independent Propulsion technology, which allows vessels to stay underwater for longer periods.

National Interest

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

Shekhar Gupta -
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?

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