Category: World
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Webb has found an object from 660 million years after the Big Bang that looks like a star the size of the solar system but radiates 100 billion times more energy than one can. It may explain the “little red dots.”
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Ukraine struck NOVATEK facilities at the Baltic export hub of Ust-Luga on 14 August, the latest in a campaign against the refineries and terminals that finance Russia’s war. Why export chokepoints are the chosen target.
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Ukrainian intelligence says Russia fired 198 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in July and is rebuilding stockpiles for a winter campaign against the grid. Kyiv says it has run out of interceptors.
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A tsunami warning was issued after Saturday’s Indonesian earthquake and lifted within the hour. Why that is the system working, why depth matters more than magnitude, and the advice that needs no technology.
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Modi’s thirteenth consecutive Red Fort address set out seven priority areas, pushed semiconductors and energy security, and included one line about “intellectual Naxals” that will dominate the domestic argument.
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A shallow magnitude 7.7 quake struck off Flores island early on 15 August, killing at least 38. Rescuers have not yet reached the area closest to the epicentre, where roads are blocked and communications are down.
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Thirteen countries have joined a Saudi-led maritime coalition to protect the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandeb from Houthi attacks. The US, Europe and the UAE are all absent — and two Western naval missions are already there.
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Eight infant macaques given a three-part regimen within 72 hours of infection showed no detectable HIV a year after treatment stopped. A striking result — and a long way from a treatment for babies.
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From Jezero Crater, NASA’s Perseverance rover watched Earth — a single point of light 195 million miles away — vanish behind the Martian moon Phobos. A first from the surface of Mars.
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The USS George Washington is heading to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, deployed more than 250 days with no port call in 200. What that does to a crew, and what the swap signals.