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Stakeholders counsel farmers on benefits of GMOs TODAY.ng Stakeholders have called on Nigerian farmers to take advantage of modified technologies to increase yield. A debate on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is raging. China launches world's first quantum satellite Anadolu Agency State media reported that the 631-kilogram (1,390-pound) satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Center in the Gobi Desert's northwest at 1.40 a.m. Simulated black hole experiment backs Hawking prediction BBC News A lab experiment has lent support to one of Stephen Hawking's most important predictions about black holes. Prof Jeff Steinhauer simulated a black hole in a super-cooled state of matter called a Bose-Einstein condensate. Unwanted pet goldfish growing to the size of a football in Australia BBC News If you've ever released a pet goldfish into the wild, you probably didn'

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Updates 400-year-old Greenland shark 'longest-living vertebrate' BBC News Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, scientists say. Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one female was about 400 years old. Passing Showers: The People Behind the Perseids The New Yorker The shooting stars of August have been with us for centuries. Where do they come from? Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER GREIG / REX VIA AP. Ancient Venus May Have Been Habitable, Likely Had Liquid-Water Ocean International Business Times In its early days, Venus was likely a very different place than it is today - different enough to even have a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures, a new study suggests. Light that gives you a suntan has travelled from OUTSIDE our galaxy Daily Mail This summer you might be spending some time topping up your tan on th

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PETROLEUM PRODUCTS 19 Ships Discharging  Petroleum Products , Other Commodities In Lagos Ports Leadership Newspapers Nineteen ships are currently discharging  petroleum products  and other commodities at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports in Lagos, the Nigerian Ports ... Elizabethtown company's  petroleum  hauling assets sold Fayetteville Observer In 1990, Brian Campbell founded Cape Fear Transport, which has hauled  petroleum products  for Campbell Oil Company and other petroleum ... Indian Oil Corporation sends petrol tankers to Tripura on train Economic Times "Supply of  petroleum products  to Tripura has been severely affected due to ... It allowed the state government to withdraw rationing of petro-products ... IndianOil reaches petro  products  by “Roll on Roll off” in Tripura The Echo of India The first rake carrying  petroleum products  in the Roll on- Roll off mode was received today at Churaibari in Tripura by Dipankar Ray, Executive ... P