Key Facts Summary Health & Medicine WHO Lifts Global Emergency Status for Mpox (Sept 5, Geneva): The World Health Organization declared that the multi-country mpox outbreak is no longer a global emergency, just over a year after it was designated as one. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the decision on 5 September, citing…
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Space & Astronomy JWST Discovers Candidate “Pristine” Galaxy: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers reported finding a distant galaxy almost entirely devoid of heavy elements, dubbed AMORE6 scitechdaily.com. If confirmed, this would mark the first-ever observation of a Population III galaxy – a primordial system of stars formed just ~900 million years after the…
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Key Facts What Is Infrared Photography and Why Is It Popular? Infrared (IR) photography means capturing light that is just beyond the visible spectrum – typically wavelengths from about 700 nanometers up to ~1200nm, which our eyes can’t see kolarivision.com kolarivision.com. By recording this invisible light, IR photography creates images with wildly unconventional colors and tones.…
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Key Facts Space & Astronomy Webb Spots Earliest Known Black Hole Astronomers pushed cosmic limits by identifying the most distant black hole ever confirmed – in a tiny galaxy dubbed CAPERS-LRD-z9, only ~500 million years after the Big Bang sciencedaily.com. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected telltale spectroscopic signatures of fast-moving gas in this…
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Key Facts Space and Astronomy A Planet Is Born: In a feat long thought nearly impossible, astronomers have directly imaged a planet in the act of forming. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team snapped a clear picture of WISPIT 2b, a gas giant about five times Jupiter’s mass, carving out a gap…
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Key Facts Space and Astronomy August 27–28 delivered big news from the cosmos. Astronomers witnessed a planet in the making for the first time: using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team directly imaged WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming within the dusty rings of a young star sci.news sci.news. The newborn planet, about five times Jupiter’s…
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Introduction Uganda’s internet landscape is a mix of rapid growth and persistent gaps. Over the past decade, the country has seen a boom in mobile phone usage and internet services, yet a majority of Ugandans remain offline due to infrastructure shortfalls, high costs, and socio-economic barriers. This report provides an in-depth look at the state…
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Rwanda’s first internet access occurred around 1996, and by 2000 there were about 5,000 users (less than 0.1% of the population). In 2004 Rwanda privatized Rwandatel and sold it to Terracom, opening the ISP market to competition. Between 2008 and 2010, Rwanda laid over 3,000 km of national fiber backbone across all 30 districts, linking…
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CATL unveiled the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion EV battery, named Naxtra, in 2023 and began deploying it in cars by late 2023. Sodium-ion cells typically deliver 140–160 Wh/kg, with CATL’s best prototypes around 175 Wh/kg and a second-generation cell expected to exceed 200 Wh/kg. All-solid-state lithium batteries are projected to store 50% to 100% more…
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Most smartphone batteries retain about 80% of their capacity after 500 complete charge cycles (roughly 1.5–2 years). Xiaomi demonstrated 210W HyperCharge that can fill a 4,000 mAh battery in about 8 minutes. Qi2 was announced in 2023 and supports up to 15W wireless charging, with the iPhone 15 (late 2024) first to officially support it.…
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