Holman Automotive will acquire Kuni Automotive to create one of the largest privately owned dealer networks in the US. The acquisition, expected to be finalized this summer, will create a bi-coastal dealer network with 33 dealerships and ...
An award-winning independent bed retailer has backed calls for a national sleep strategy and 'slumber number' to guide the public on how much sleep they should be aiming to get. The Royal Society for Public Health’s report Waking Up ...
Satoru Iwata once said "On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” The life of Satoru Iwata was honored yesterday during the GDC Awards, where a heartfelt ...
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The Cancer Council and the National Heart Foundation have released a report claiming Victorian fast food chains do not provide sufficient nutritional information. In the “Investigation into kilojoule menu labelling in Victorian ...
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Nighttime light pollution, or sky glow, is the combined light from streetlights, parking lots, malls, office buildings, stadiums and other structures that brightens night skies and drastically limits the visibility of stars. Sky glow ...
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The first quality standards for pollution filter masks will take effect on March 1 in a bid to regulate the rapidly growing domestic market. The Group Standard on Protective Masks against PM 2.5 was released on Jan 18, with the goal to ...
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UK's Local Government Association has urged alcohol makers to introduce calorie labels to their packaging in order to inform people about the calories the drink contains. It said that long-term health effects of drinking are known to ...
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Three scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies ...
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Chinese researchers have developed a heavy-ion medical accelerator to be used in radiotherapy for cancer, researchers said Thursday. A recent test of the machine's beam was successful, marking the end of China's dependence on imported ...
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The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic ...
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Scientists from east China's Zhejiang University have for the first time identified the relationship between airway diseases and environmental particulate matter (PM). Scientists discovered that autophagy, a normal physiological process ...
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A research team headed by Ivy Hsu, Professor at Department of Bioscience Technology of Chung Yuan Christian University is betting on using LEDs to replace expensive laser lights in cancer surgery, reported CTimes. The professor announced ...
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European Union regulators have concluded that the widely used herbicide glyphosate is unlikely to cause cancer, a ruling that runs counter to a controversial assessment issued recently by an arm of the World Health Organization. The ...
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Beef might be off the Christmas menu for many Australians this year with prices continuing to rise dramatically. Over the past year, Australian domestic beef prices have more than doubled with drought hitting Australian farms hard. Yet, ...
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Older adults in long-term care facilities often spend their days and nights in dimly-lit rooms with minimal time spent outdoors. The constant, unvarying dim light found in many long-term care facilities means that older adults are not ...
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