New walking shark discovered in Indonesia? It's not the first

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Scientists have discovered the third known species of walking shark in Indonesia. Which means that there are, apparently, other walking shark species. And also, that sharks walk.

Time to take a moment to let that sink in. Meanwhile, watch the video above. The new species, calledHemiscyllium halmahera, is a type of epaulette shark described in the journal Aqua: the International Journal of Ichthyology. The shark lives off the coral reefs along the coast of Halmahera, a remote Indonesian island.

"Its features include a general brown coloration with numerous clusters of mainly 2-3 dark polygonal spots,” according to the dry abstract, which doesn’t really delve into the fact that it walks on rocks.

Epaulette sharks, so named for the dramatic badge-like spot behind the pectoral fin, use their fins to help navigate the uneven environment of a coral reef.

Some researchers have studied its gait to try and understand how sea creatures might have first evolved into landlubbers, according to the ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research.

“The wriggling gait of the Epaulette Shark has been studied as a model of the probable limb movements used by the first tetrapods (four-footed vertebrates) to clamber from the sea onto land,” to the center says. “This research provides evidence supporting the evolutionary theory that the paired limb movements necessary for terrestrial locomotion predate the first amphibians.”

The discovery of the newly named shark highlights the plight of sharks in Indonesia, where they are heaviliy hunted for their meat, says Conservation International.

“For nearly three decades, Indonesia has led the world in the export of dried shark fins and other products from elasmobranchs (sharks, fins and skates),” study coauthor Mark Erdmann wrote in a blog for the nonprofitorganization.

Finding the new epaulette shark is a promising sign that the tide is turning and that new environmental protections may be working, Erdmann said.+

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India's Chandrayaan-1 helps NASA find water on moon...

Using data from instruments aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have found evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath the surface.

Using US space agency NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument on the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) spacecraft, scientists remotely detected magmatic water, or water that originates from deep within the moon's interior, on the surface of the moon.

The findings of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) funded research, published in Nature Geoscience, represent the first detection of this form of water from lunar orbit, the agency said.

Earlier studies had shown the existence of magmatic water in lunar samples returned during the Apollo programme, NASA said in a media release.

M3 imaged the lunar impact crater Bullialdus, which lies near the lunar equator. Its central peak is made up of a type of rock that forms deep within the lunar crust and mantle when magma is trapped underground.

"This rock, which normally resides deep beneath the surface, was excavated from the lunar depths by the impact that formed Bullialdus crater," said Rachel Klima, a planetary geologist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

"Compared to its surroundings, we found that the central portion of this crater contains a significant amount of hydroxyl — a molecule consisting of one oxygen atom and one hydrogen atom — which is evidence that the rocks in this crater contain water that originated beneath the lunar surface," Klima said.

In 2009, M3 provided the first mineralogical map of the lunar surface and discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the moon.

This water is thought to be a thin layer formed from solar wind hitting the moon's surface. Bullialdus crater is in a region with an unfavourable environment for solar wind to produce significant amounts of water on the surface.

The detection of internal water from orbit means scientists can begin to test some of the findings from sample studies in a broader context, including in regions that are far from where the Apollo sites are clustered on the near side of the moon, NASA said.

For many years, researchers believed that the rocks from the moon were bone-dry and any water detected in the Apollo samples had to be contamination from Earth, it said.

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Michael Jackson's Life Remembered: Happy 55th Birthday To The King Of Pop!

He may no longer be with us, but so long as people still love his music, he'll never be gone!

Had the King of Pop not passed in 2009, today Michael Jackson would have celebrated his 55th birthday. We imagine he would've spent the today in the warmth of his family, particularly his children.

But rather than mourn his passing, we'd like to celebrate his life, today of all days. We'd like to think of the vibrant, brilliant artist, who not only created a catalogue of insanely incredible music, but influenced generations of artists that are making music today.

That is his true legacy!

So, to honor him and his music, won't you join us on a journey down memory lane?!

European hunter-gatherers reared pigs even in 4600BC...

farmers as early as 4600BC.

The international team of scientists, including researchers at Durham and Aberdeen universities, showed there was interaction between the hunter-gatherer and farming communities and a 'sharing' of animals and knowledge.

The interaction between the two groups eventually led to the hunter-gatherers incorporating farming and breeding of livestock into their culture, the scientists said.

The research gives new insights into the movements of pre-historic humans and the transition of technologies and knowledge.

The spread of plants and animals throughout Europe between 6000 and 4000BC involved a complex interplay between indigenous Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and incoming Neolithic farmers but the scale of the interaction and the extent to which hunter-gatherers took ideas from their neighbours remains hotly debated.

The researchers said that previous evidence about the ownership of domestic animals by hunter-gatherers has so far been circumstantial.

"Mesolithic hunter-gatherers definitely had dogs, but they did not practise agriculture and did not have pigs, sheep, goats, or cows, all of which were introduced to Europe with incoming farmers about 6000BC. Having people who practised a very different survival strategy nearby must have been odd, and we know now that the hunter-gathers possessed some of the farmers' domesticated pigs," lead author, Dr Ben Krause-Kyora, from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, said.

It is not yet known whether the hunter-gatherers received the pigs via trade or exchange, or by hunting and capturing escaped animals.

However, the domestic pigs had different coloured and spotted coats that would have seemed strange and exotic to the hunter-gatherers and may have attracted them to the pigs.

Can humans control weather by using lasers?

Humans can manipulate and control the weather by seeding 'artificial' clouds, inducing rains and even triggering lightning with the help of lasers, scientists claim. 

Experiments by researchers have shown that intense pulses of light can cause ice formation and water to condense, leading to the formation of man-made clouds. 

Researchers have also demonstrated that lightning discharges can be triggered and channelled through the air using laser pulses, the 'Telegraph' reported. 

They hope the technology could allow lightning during thunderstorms to be guided away from sensitive buildings such as power-plants or airports. 

The technology may manipulate the weather by creating 'artificial' clouds and triggering rainfall ahead of major public events, researchers said. 

Professor Jean-Pierre Wolf and Dr Jerome Kasparian, from the University of Geneva, are organising a conference at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) next month in an attempt to find ways of speeding up research on the topic. 

"Ultra-short lasers launched into the atmosphere have emerged as a promising prospective tool for weather modulation and climate studies. Such prospects include lightning control and laser-assisted condensation," said Kasparian. 

Scientists have long tried to control the weather, including using techniques such as cloud seeding. 

They acheive this by spraying small particles and chemicals into the air to induce water vapours to condense into clouds, the report said. 

The US experimented with using silver-iodide in an attempt to weaken hurricanes in 1960's. 

The erstwhile USSR also claimed to have flown cloud seeding missions in an attempt to create rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. 

Chinese authorities used aircraft and rockets to release chemicals into the atmosphere before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing so as to keep rains away. 

However, researchers believe that lasers could provide an easier and more controllable method of manipulating the weather conditions. 

Researchers said experiments using varying pulses of near infra-red laser light and ultraviolet lasers have shown that they cause water vapours to condense. 

Lasers induce tiny ice crystals to form, which are a crucial step in the formation of clouds and eventual rainfall, researchers have found.

Giant deer, mammoth skeletons found in Italy..

Rome – Researchers in Italy have unearthed and partially reconstructed the skeleton of a million-year-old mammoth, as well as remains from a giant deer and a tortoise.

The rare remains were uncovered at Ellera di Corciano, near the central city of Perugia.

Researchers had discovered in the same area in 2011 the skeletons of 200 mammals that roamed the earth around a million years ago, including hippopotamuses, deer, bison, horses and cheetas.

Italian paleontologist Marco Cherin from the University of Perugia’s Department of Earth Sciences has been leading a team of geology and natural science students at the dig.

Geological and micro-paleontological analysis of soil strata from the site show it was once a fertile alluvial plain inhabited by a diverse range of large mammals.

6 Powerful Smartphones to Launch in September 2013 .....

September promises to be be a busy month for the mobile industry with several high profile launches lined up. Most of the industry's heavyweights have a device or two coming out since the holiday season is only a few months away. The pace of smartphone evolution is stepping up each week, with new features and revolutionary technology making an appearance at every turn. At Gizbot, we've made a list of the most exciting phones that will be launched this September 2013. Despite having just launched a powerful phablet, the Xperia Z Ultra, Sony will be coming out with another big-ticket handset immediately. The reason? Since competitors like Samsung and Nokia have released super-camera phones like the Nokia Lumia 1020, Sony is under pressure to bring out its own device in that category. So yes, this device's camera will be its most important feature and we expect it to deliver more photographic-goodness than any other smartphone in the market. Like its predecessor, the Note 2, we expect that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Note 3 will be one of its best selling devices. We believe that the device's main focus will be a massive battery, which will allow it run for long hours on a single charge. This feature will be very important since the company is advertising it as a device suited for intense productivity at the workplace. Apple's September 10th event, on which the company is expected to launch its next iPhone, will obviously be the most important date in the month. Rumor mills have it that apart from the iPhone 5S, the company will also be bringing out a less expensive version of the handset called the iPhone 5C. The 5C will help Apple enter the mid-range smartphone segment which it has ignored completely until now. Staying in touch with the "bigger is better" mantra that was started by Samsung, HTC is gearing up to launch One Max, which will be its first Phablet. The device will compete with the likes of Samsung's Note 2 and upcoming Note 3 and even the Sony Xperia Z Ultra. And yes, as with any other phablet, expect the device to carry a mammoth of a battery. Despite being a new entrant into the smartphone market, Lenovo has entered with a bang after having launched a series of high-quality devices at optimum price bracket. Earlier this month, the Internet was abuzz with benchmark leaks of a new smartphone from the company, the K910. The device managed to deliver some impressive numbers against competing devices like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Sony Xperia Z Ultra. We believe that Lenovo will be one of the most exciting companies to watchout for in the 2013 smartphone race. Then there's Blackberry, a company that is contemplating a sell out owing to its depressing performance over the last few years. But despite all this, the Canadian phone maker will be relasing another device in September. It's nice to see that company's sorry-balance sheets haven't dampened its spirit. As for the phone, expect to see a 5 inch phablet with the latest version of the BB10 OS and some good, if not great hardware. If that wasn't enough, Gizbot has worked extra hard to give you the expected specifications of each of these upcoming devices. Scroll through the slide show and ogle over the rumored specifications for each of these devices.

China's Drive-In Car Museum....

China's Drive-In Car Museum
3GATTI Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai have won a competition to design a drive-in automobile museum in Nanjing, China.As visitors reach the summit, they can leave their car, walk down the inner spiral ramp, and check out all the exhibits. Once they reach the ground floor, they can take an elevator and return to their car on the roof, or a chauffeur will bring it down for them.

Zuckerberg hacker gets a $11K cash reward — but not from Facebook ....

When Khalil Shreateh exploited a Facebook bug to post on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall, he wasn’t trying to cause trouble. He wanted to help Facebook out (and possibly make a few bucks in the process).

Facebook, however, doesn’t see it that way. While the company has already rewarded hackers $1 million for reporting bugs, it’s refusing to pay up for Shreateh, whose reporting methods it says violated its terms of service. As it turns out, Facebook isn’t too crazy about people hacking their way onto the wall of its CEO.

“We will not change our practice of refusing to pay rewards to researchers who have tested vulnerabilities against real users. It is never acceptable to compromise the security or privacy of other people,” Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan write in a blog post this week.

Recognizing that Shreateh may never get the money he’s technically owed, his supporters are paying him themselves. Marc Maiffret, the chief technology officer of cybersecurity company BeyondTrust, launched a donation campaign for Shreateh, which has raised over $11,000 in less than a day.

Here’s how Maiffret sees the situation:

Khalil Shreateh found a vulnerability in Facebook.com and, due to miscommunication, was not awarded a bounty for his work. Let us all send a message to security researchers across the world and say that we appreciate the efforts they make for the good of everyone.

The “miscommunication” in this case refers to the way Shreateh reported the vulnerability. According to Facebook, which gets millions of so-called “bug reports” a day, Shreateh’s initial messages to the company weren’t detailed enough, which is partially why the researcher was initially rebuffed. Facebook may be partially to blame, but Shreateh’s still not getting his money.

Facebook’s stance here is understandable: While the company is fine with hackers finding and reporting bugs, it wants them to do so both ethically and quietly. Shreateh’s methods were neither ethical nor quiet, but it’s clear that Facebook is on the wrong side of the debate in this case.

The situation is actually pretty ironic given Facebook’s infamously hacker-friendly culture, which encourages employees to “move fast and break things.” Apparently, “breaking things” doesn’t apply to the rules.

Nokia Bandit: a 6-inch giant Windows Phone coming soon.....

Nokia is planning a big-screen Windows Phone for release later this year. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the company is currentlytesting a 6-inch device with the latest version of Windows Phone. Codenamed "Bandit," the handset includes a 1080p display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor. We understand that Bandit will be the first of many planned 1080p Windows Phone devices.

We're told that the Bandit will ship with a rear camera that is at least 20-megapixels, and a slight hump at the rear of the device (similar to the Lumia 925) to accommodate the camera. We understand the Bandit is thin and lightweight, and includes a polycarbonate body. Microsoft is currently improving Windows Phone to support devices like the Bandit, with extra changes for 1080p displays, and an additional column of Live Tiles on the Start screen. The latest Windows Phone update, GDR3, also includes rotation lock, a Driving Mode option, and some minor UI changes.

We're also told that Nokia is planning to launch its existing Lumia 925 handset on additional carriers in the US soon, extending its availability as a Lumia 920 replacement. Nokia's big-screen Bandit device is currently being tested at AT&T, and we understand it will debut by the end of the year in the US.

Bring on the gold iPhone!

If you actually ignore the fact that you shouldn't like it, I genuinely think this looks pretty good. It's a shame iMore has only done a white and gold rendering -- I think it'd look even better in black and gold.

Apple gold? (images)

Will Apple sip from a champagne-gold iPhone 5S? (images)

However, if you're reading this in the US chances are that you'd never want this thing. If you're reading this in the UK, the same is probably true.

In other territories, gold makes more sense. In the western world we might look at this as a bit (as we say in the UK) "naff" -- it's bling for the sake of bling, bordering on the chintzy. But in China for example the color gold has much more sway, culturally speaking. The same is true in India. One company over there will even sell you a gold HTC One. A gold iPhone is designed to play well in those markets without much effort.

In markets that would naturally be resistant to the gold color, this is more about fashion.

Before Apple introduced the unibody MacBook, no one made a beautiful laptop. Now Apple laptops are instantly recognizable and desirable if you don't own one, and a pleasure to tote around and touch if you do own one. A good percentage of Ultrabook designs look to emulate the appearance of the unibody MacBooks, even if they're made of silvered plastic.

If we look at mobile phones, we see a similar thing. If a vendor wants to mimic Apple, they'll make their device out of metal and glass. But, that metal is always silver.

By creating a gold iPhone, what Apple will be looking to do is set a new fashion. They were the ones who created a desire for silver and glass, now the objective is to sell gold and glass as the must-have combination.

Remember, Apple is a fashion brand, not a technology brand. Their intention will be to steal a march and make gold consumer devices desirable, whilst at the same time owning the most desirable, the most up-to-the-minute gold device.

Apple wants to make gold "this season's color", globally. 

Problems

A gold iPhone also solves a problem for Apple in that when the average consumer sees someone using an iPhone in public, it's not obvious that this device is the latest-and-greatest. The differences between the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S were all internal. Apple's problem here is that it can only create a demand in the market for the "new shiny" when normal people can tell the difference.

And a gold iPhone does exactly that. It's the very definition of "new shiny." If you're in your favorite local coffee shop and see one of those lying on the table, you're going to know it's a new iPhone, thus increasing the potential of you wandering into your local smartphone store and buying one.

Never underestimate the power of the new shiny.

Conclusion

Tech fashion designer Stuart Hughes with his gold-plated iPad. Credit: stuarthughes.com

One thing I'll be intrigued to see if how on earth they're going to sell this in the keynote. Apple loves to control the message in their keynotes. But at this point everyone knows they're going to release a gold iPhone, and the audience of that keynote (mainly affluent tech reporters and bloggers from the US) is not going to be impressed.

There's no way Apple are going to want the audience groaning -- or even laughing -- at a new product, mid-keynote.

After the keynote, watch for all the other smartphone OEMs coming out with gold devices. They will be legion.

Mind you, I totally want a gold iPad too. That'd be awesome...

Tiny fish make 'eyes' at their killer..

Small prey fish can grow a bigger 'eye' on their rear fins as a way of distracting predators and dramatically boosting their chances of survival, new scientific research has found.

Researchers from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) have made a world-first discovery that, when constantly threatened with being eaten, small damsel fish not only grow a larger false 'eye spot' near their tail – but also reduce the size of their real eyes.

The result is a fish that looks like it is heading in the opposite direction – potentially confusing predatory fish with plans to gobble them up, says Oona Lönnstedt, a graduate student at CoECRS and James Cook University.

For decades scientists have debated whether false eyespots, or dark circular marks on less vulnerable regions of the bodies of prey animals, played an important role in protecting them from predators – or were simply a fortuitous evolutionary accident.

The CoECRS team has found the first clear evidence that fish can change the size of both the misleading spot and their real eye to maximise their chances of survival when under threat.

"It's an amazing feat of cunning for a tiny fish," Ms Lonnstedt says. "Young damsel fish are pale yellow in colour and have this distinctive black circular 'eye' marking towards their tail, which fades as they mature. We figured it must serve an important purpose when they are young."

"We found that when young damsel fish were placed in a specially built tank where they could see and smell predatory fish without being attacked, they automatically began to grow a bigger eye spot, and their real eye became relatively smaller, compared with damsels exposed only to herbivorous fish, or isolated ones.

"We believe this is the first study to document predator-induced changes in the size of eyes and eye-spots in prey animals."

When the researchers investigated what happens in nature on a coral reef with lots of predators, they found that juvenile damsel fish with enlarged eye spots had an amazing five times the survival rate of fish with a normal-sized spot.

"This was dramatic proof that eyespots work – and give young fish a hugely increased chance of not being eaten.

"We think the eyespots not only cause the predator to attack the wrong end of the fish, enabling it to escape by accelerating in the opposite direction, but also reduce the risk of fatal injury to the head," she explains.

The team also noted that when placed in proximity to a predator the young damsel fish also adopted other protective behaviours and features, including reducing activity levels, taking refuge more often and developing a chunkier body shape less easy for a predator to swallow.

window phone blow your cell phone...

The Window Phone is a concept mobile phone that is able to transform its appearance like a window as per the weather. The phone is designed as a thin, clear and transparent plastic sheet, which remains clear during a sunny day, becomes humid during a rainy day and takes a dump outlook during a snowy day. The user can write text messages or draw pictures on the phone in different weather conditions which will later transform and show as SMS characters. The screen features sensitive interaction with the user and comprises the state of a window in different weather conditions.

1,800 Indians queue up for one-way trip to Mars..

Nearly 1,800 Indians want to settle down on the Red Planet permanently and several of them are from Bangalore, according to Aashima Dogra, spokesperson of the Netherlands-based Mars One, which is planning a one-way human mission to Mars in 2022.

Mars One, founded in 2011, is a not-for-profit organization which aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023. It intends to fund the endeavour by televising every aspect of the mission, from launch to landing to living on Mars.

Soon, advertising models based on 'eye tracking'

Pay-per-gaze! Advertising models in the future may be based on a 'Gaze Tracking System' that monitors eye movements to pin down what the user is looking at and charge advertisers accordingly.

The move from 'clicks' to pupil dilations may come after technology giant Google's patent for a Gaze Tracking System became public last week.

Pay-per-click is an internet advertising model currently used to direct traffic to websites, in which advertisers pay the publisher - typically a website owner – when the ad is clicked.

Originally filed in May 2011, the patent presents an idea for wearers of a head mounted device - and in 2013 observers are guessing this may be Google Glass – to have gaze tracked so that the system can pin down exactly what the user is looking at and even the emotional responses via pupil dilation, phys.org reported.

Information about where the user was gazing when viewing the external scene would be sent over to a server. An image recognition algorithm would be executed on the scene images to identify items within the external scenes viewed by the user.

A gazing log tracking the identified items viewed by the user would be generated.

"To date eye tracking systems have mostly been limited to research endeavours because of the intrusiveness, high cost, and reliability of these systems," according to the patent.

"A technique and system that can provide a reliable, low cost, and unobtrusive, eye tracking system could have a variety of useful everyday applications," it said.

Advertisers could be charged according to the number of views an ad received while wearing Glass, both offline and online. Google's patent refers to the process as "pay-per-gaze" advertising.

Google plans to set up an advertising model of pay-per-gaze.

"Under a pay per gaze advertising scheme, advertisers are charged based upon whether a user actually viewed their advertisement," the patent explained.

"Pay per gaze advertising need not be limited to on-line advertisements, but rather can be extended to conventional advertisement media including billboards, magazines, newspapers, and other forms of conventional print media.

"The system would involve "determining which, if any, of the identified items within the external scenes viewed by the user are advertisements; and charging advertisers associated with the advertisements based at least in part on a per gaze basis," it said.

"To protect individual privacy, personal identifying data may be removed from the data and provided to the advertisers as anonymous analytics.

"In one embodiment, users may be given opt-in or opt-out privileges to control the type of data being gathered, when the data is being gathered, or how the gathered data may be used or with whom it may be shared," the patent said.

Rolls-Royce set to launch Wraith August 23...

  

                                                                    The Ghost-based coupe is its most dynamic car ever, according to Rolls-Royce, and will come powered by a 624bhp V12 engine capable of accelerating from 0-100kph in 4.4 seconds.

The Wraith is 183mm shorter in terms of wheelbase than the Ghost, 130mm shorter in overall length, 40mm wider in rear track and 43mm lower in height. The suspension has also been stiffened to minimise body roll and ensure the driver gets a better sense of feedback when cornering. The steering weight is also heavier at high speeds and lighter at low speeds to encourage spirited driving.

However, company boss Müller-Ötvös emphasised that the Wraith should not be considered an outright sporting GT. "While the Wraith does push the brand in a new direction, evolving it in a way that we hope will attract new, perhaps younger customers, it is still a Rolls-Royce, and the 'bed of air' ride our customers expect is still uppermost in the car's DNA."

Technical innovations to complement the car¹s dynamics include a satellite-aided transmission, which uses GPS mapping data and driving style measurements to ensure the correct gear is pre-selected for the road ahead by the eight-speed ZF gearbox.

Inside, the Wraith features Phantom-grade leathers and new wood panelling, which stretches across the coach doors through to the rear of the car. A starlight headliner is also available in a model other than the Phantom for the first time, working via 1,340 tiny lamps hand-woven into the roof lining.

Sprint double for the one and only...

When Usain Bolt means business, he is still all alone out there.

Bolt coasted to his third straight 200-meter world title on Saturday with the race basically wrapped up as soon as he entered the finishing straight. Jamaican teammate Warren Weir never got close to Bolt's world leading time of 19.66s, but crossing .13 seconds later for silver still left him enough time to join Bolt in a reggae dance to Bob Marley's 'Three Little Birds'.

"The energy was great tonight," Bolt said. "The crowd was in to it."

Curtis Mitchell of the United States took bronze in 20.24 seconds, but was never in the hunt for gold. Now Bolt will go for his fourth triple gold at a major championship when he joins the Jamaican team for the 4x100 relay on Sunday. "It should be even better," Bolt said.

The wealth of Jamaican sprinting is such that they might well sweep their American rivals in unprecedented fashion, after Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce clinched a similar 100-200 double and has her final relay also late on the closing day of the championships.

Opposition could hardly touch Bolt on Saturday, and once it was clear his right foot was OK after he dropped a starting block on it early in the week, everything was as good as gold. Even his start was strong as he quickly gained a decisive edge. And then in the finishing straight, Bolt fully let loose his giant stride, the one that has dumbfounded rivals since he won three gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

One shy of Lewis, Johnson

His seventh world title leaves him one shy of American greats Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson, who lead the overall gold medal standings in the 30-year history of the event. On Sunday, Bolt can pull alongside them. And with 10 medals overall, Bolt can overtake Lewis at the top with two silvers compared to a silver and bronze for the American sprinter-long jumper.