What’s a dust devil sound like on Mars? A NASA rover by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed directly overhead, recording the racket. It’s about 10 seconds of not only rumbling gusts of up to 25 mph (40 kph), but the pinging of hundreds of dust particles against…
National Health Service nurses in Britain will strike on Thursday in their first-ever national walkout as a bitter dispute with the government over pay ramps up pressure on already-stretched hospitals at one of the busiest times of year. An estimated 100,000 nurses will strike at 76 hospitals and health centers on Thursday, canceling thousands…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 14. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced an official rate of foreign currencies on December 14, Trend reports referring to CBI. According to the currency exchange rate of the Central Bank of Iran, 26 currencies increased and 10 have decreased in price, compared to December 13. According to CBI, $1 equals 42,000 Iranian rials…
New Zealand on Tuesday passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after January 1, 2009. It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up…
A South African researcher has developed a way to remove contaminants from water used in mining that could help clean up the dirty industry. The award-winning ion exchange method not only cleans the water but captures polluting metals that can then be re-purposed. At a Johannesburg laboratory, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 13. The official exchange rate of the US dollar and euro against Azerbaijani manat as of December 13, 2022, is set at 1.7 and 1.7921 manat, respectively, Trend reports via Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA). The manat rate to other global currencies for Tuesday according to the CBA: Currencies 1 US dollar USD 1,7…
BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 12. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced an official rate of foreign currencies on December 12, Trend reports referring to CBI. According to the currency exchange rate of the Central Bank of Iran, 13 currencies increased and 17 have decreased in price, compared to December 11. According to CBI, $1 equals 42,000 Iranian rials…
