Falls

• In Australia, headlines have talked about a “slide” down the world rankings for Australian universities, with our reputation also “slipping”.
• For example, The University of Sydney dropped six places to 60 and the Australian National University dropped five places to 67.
• The Conversation spoke to Associate Professor Gwilym Croucher, a higher education researcher at the University of Melbourne about what the latest rankings mean.
• Given international student fees have played a key role in funding much research in Australian universities, this is important.

• Meteorites are therefore rightly classified by many countries as an integral part of communal natural heritage and are sought after by museums and private collectors.
• Gideon Lombaard, a farmer in the Northern Cape province, reached out to us because he suspected that he had found two meteorite fragments.
• Mr Lombaard’s double discovery raises South Africa’s tally of confirmed meteorites to 51 – the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.
• But, compared with the over 14,000 meteorites recovered from the Sahara desert, the number of recovered southern African meteorites is extremely small.

What is a meteorite?

• Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking (called a “find”).
• However, around 2% of meteorites are classified as “falls” because they are retrieved after witnessed meteor fireball events.

Discovery and forensics

• It is thus not surprising that nearly 80% of all meteorites have been found where arid climates aid their preservation, namely Antarctica and the Sahara desert.
• Meteorites typically become coated in a dark fusion crust during their fiery passage through the atmosphere.
• That makes the white Antarctic ice and the pale-coloured Sahara bedrock and sand perfect backdrops for searchers.
• We then used the greater oxidation (rust) of the Wolfkop stone to suggest that its fall predated that of the Brierskop meteorite.

South Africa’s meteorite heritage

• The South African Heritage Act No.
• 25 of 1999 classifies South African meteorites as national heritage items that cannot be damaged, removed, exported or traded without a permit issued by the South African Heritage Agency.
• Prior to the two recent discoveries, the Meteoritical Bulletin Database listed 49 meteorites as having been satisfactorily proved to be from South African sites.

• Todos intends to deploy medical foods to aid physicians in the dietary management of Long COVID, optimize immune support with nutritional supplements targeting the 3CL protease, and precision diagnostic panels to assist in the diagnosis and monitoring of Long COVID patients.
• A recent report by David Cutler of Harvard University estimates the annual Long COVID cost to the US economy is $3.7 trillion.
• With this signed agreement now in place, the Company is now able to swiftly implement our strategy of crowdfunding within the 3CL Pharma entity to fund a Long COVID clinical trial.
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• Today, in partnership with proptech leader SkySlope , Colorado’s largest real estate multiple listing service, REcolorado , announced they will co-develop an innovative product called Offer Insights.
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• “These types of collaborations are essential to creating innovations that will give agents a competitive advantage as the industry shifts.”
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• Designed to bring time-saving automation to real estate transactions, these solutions significantly reduce administrative tasks for agents.