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First-ever comet material discovered on Earth | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv

First-ever comet material discovered on Earth | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv


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// JOHANNESBURG: A comet exploded over modern-day Egypt 28 million years ago, raining down fire and leaving behind a "mysterious" black pebble -- the first-ever comet material found on Earth, scientists said Tuesday as they announced the discovery.

"Comets always visit our skies -- they're these dirty snowballs of ice mixed with dust -- but never before in history has material from a comet ever been found on Earth," said professor David Block at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand.

Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had a scarab broach made from yellow silica glass created when the comet's explosion heated sand to 2,000 degrees Celsius (3,600 degrees Fahrenheit).

But also left behind was the first comet material discovered on Earth -- a black pebble embedded in the modern-day Sahara's sands, the university said in a statement.

The pebble was "the first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path," it said.

South African scholars headed a team of geoscientists, physicists and astronomers who tested the pebble, which was found in 1996.

It had "been sitting around for a long time" until it ended up with a team member studying diamonds, according to Johannesburg University professor Jan Kramers.

The shock of impact created microscopic diamonds on the pebble, but studies showed this was no ordinary bit of stone.

The 30-gramme (one-ounce) pebble had a clear "extraterrestrial component" yet was distinctly different from meteorites, said Kramers.

"If you compare it with meteorites... they contain only about three percent carbon. And this thing contains 65 percent carbon," he told AFP.

Chemical tests led the experts to "the inescapable conclusion that it represented the very first known hand specimen of a comet nucleus," according to the University of the Witwatersrand...........//

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SC grants Musharraf bail in Bugti murder case | PAKISTAN - geo.tv

SC grants Musharraf bail in Bugti murder case | PAKISTAN - geo.tv


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SC grants Musharraf bail in Bugti murder case

Judicial Justified Justice seems getting delayed for this or that reason. Justice is desired and expected not to be delayed so that it cannot be assumed, 'justice delayed, justice denied.'

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BBC News - MEPs tighten anti-tobacco laws aimed at young smokers

BBC News - MEPs tighten anti-tobacco laws aimed at young smokers

 
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Banning Tobacco Use:

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 It has been observed that danger signals about tobacco use publicized by the authorities could get positive response from some adults although the youngsters are still found involved in smoking cigarettes who seem very impossible to be convinced by their grown ups. What to do fir such situation!

Diver attacked by shark off Australia | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv

Diver attacked by shark off Australia | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv
 


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SYDNEY:
A commercial diver suffered "substantial" injuries after being attacked
by a shark off remote Western Australia, officials said Tuesday.

The man, reportedly aged 55, was with a diving crew from Southern Wild
Abalone when the shark struck off Poison Creek beach, east of the town
of Esperance.

"Obviously, there has been some substantial injuries
(as) with any encounter with a shark, but at this stage (the details
are) still quite sketchy," the firm's owner Marcus Tromp told the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"I understood that he was still conscious and in good hands as far as first aid goes," he added.

Another diver was in the area and came to assist the injured man's crew with
first aid before he was transported to shore for treatment, Tromp said. - See more at: http://

627 cancer patients treated through new robatic surgery at JPMC | HEALTH - geo.tv

627 cancer patients treated through new robatic surgery at JPMC | HEALTH - geo.tv


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HEALTH AWARENESS: 627 cancer patients treated through new robatic surgery at JPMC

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// KARACHI: Project Director CyberKnife Unit, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Prof Tariq Mehmood, on Saturday informed that the early stage of cancer is curable though latest Robotic Radio-surgery Cyberknife and treatment of cancer is available in Karachi.

Tariq, also the Head of Radiology Department, JPMC told PPI that ‘cyber’ and ‘knife’ words tell this treatment is a computerised surgery. He that the robot could cure early stage of brain, head and neck, spine, prostate, lungs cancers etc by one to five sessions of two-hour radio-surgery by Cyberknife.................//

Diesel exhaust fumes baffle bees: study | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv

Diesel exhaust fumes baffle bees: study | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv


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AMAZING & INTERESTING: Diesel exhaust fumes alter the flowery smells that guide bees when they forage, potentially sending them off course and putting the food-growing industry at risk, a study said today.

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/ SOUTHAMPTON: Diesel exhaust fumes alter the flowery smells that guide bees when they forage, potentially sending them off course and putting the food-growing industry at risk, a study said today.

Honeybees rely heavily on their sense of smell to locate flowers from which they harvest life-giving nectar -- transferring pollen grains from one bloom to another in the process.

The new research shows that diesel exhaust fumes from cars, tractors or power generators can chemically alter the smell of flowers and render them undetectable to bees.

This, in turn, threatens the insects' crucial role as a key pollinators of human food crops.

"Somewhere in the region of 70 per cent of world crops require pollination services, and... About 35 per cent of our current food production is reliant on pollination," study co-author Tracey Newman of the University of Southampton told a press conference ahead of the report's release in the journal Nature Scientific Reports.

Pollination services have an estimated economic value of 153 billion euros (USD 208 billion) a year.

For the study, Newman and a team created a synthetic odour blend mimicking the complex chemical mix that make up the smell of oilseed rape flowers.

The synthetic blend of eight chemicals was released into a sealed glass vessel with clean air, and another that contained diesel exhaust at levels similar to rush-hour, roadside fumes.

The fumes contained high concentrations of NOx gases: nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide, as well as carbon monoxide.

Within one minute, the chemicals alpha-farnesene and alpha-terpinene, which comprised 72.5 per cent and 0.8 per cent of the blend respectively, were "rendered undetectable" in the diesel-polluted air.

The other chemicals were also considerably reduced in volume while there was no change for the blend in the clean-air vial.

Next, the team tested whether bees would notice the difference.

They trained the insects by exposing them to the eight-chemical synthetic odour blend and feeding them a sugar solution at the same time to build an association of reward -- as the smell of flowers hold the promise of nectar.

Over time, the trained bees would start sticking out their tongue-like proboscis in anticipation whenever they recognised the odour. (AFP) //