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Michigan governor Rick Snyder has demanded for expansion of Medicaid coverage for Flint residents. The federal government should think about enlarging the coverage for individuals under 21 and pregnant ladies who have been exposed to lead-contaminated water in the city, Snyder said in a statement on Sunday.

Flint has more than 15,000 residents, who will be benefited if federal government listens to him and accept his proposal, as per Snyder’s statement. He also said that Michigan will help in the issue by lining up doctors and health experts, and providing some essential services.

A new report has suggested that mental health care quality in the United Kingdom is going through a bad phase. Health care is lacking, underfunded and ruining many people’s lives, the report published by a taskforce set up by NHS England concluded.

Only a few people in the country are getting help on time. There are many sufferers who have received lesser care than required and funding constraints have put more pressure on current staff. Only 15% people are actually getting the help they need.

One of the most common sexually transmitted infections is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). The HPV 16 strain of the virus infection causes cancer to two out of every three people with oral cancer in the United States and the stats are similar for most western nations. Males are twice likely to get infected with HPV than women, claims a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in the US capital on Friday.

Veteran puzzle and game maker Tony Fisher has constructed possibly the biggest Rubik’s Cube in the world. Each side of this Rubik’s Cube measures approximately five feet, with its weight somewhere around 220 pounds. It probably struck to the game maker that solving Rubik’s Cube of a normal size is quite simple, so he went ahead that took it to a level ahead.

This enormous version of Rubik’s Cube has been has been built by Fisher himself and he commenced this project in January 2016. It took him just several weeks to create this giant puzzle, a video of which has been posted by him online.

Technological advancements in tracking devices have for the very first time enabled scientists to thoroughly study the foraging patterns of beluga whales. The new tagging technology has enabled the researchers to find out more information about how the whales forage for food and migrate. Otherwise, these whales have been extremely difficult to follow due to the tough conditions they live in.

A mysterious death due to a blast at a college in Indian state of Tamil Nadu’s Vellore town later turned out to be meteorite crash, a development that was confirmed at a leading state-run laboratory. While this particular incident was confirmed, many more like this in smaller places and inhabited areas may pass off unnoticed or as mysteries due to lack of awareness.

In order to make people aware about the dangers of an asteroid strike on Earth, an international band of experts in the field last year decided to observe June 30 as the International Asteroid Day. The scientists, as part of preparations for the second annual Asteroid Day, recently gathered to debate the future of asteroid research and how to avoid these.