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Scotland Becomes First Country to Implement Minimum Unit Alcohol Price
May 3, 2018The minimum unit price (MUP) for alcohol has come into force in Scotland, making it the first country in the world to implement such a law. The legislation has been welcomed by several health organisations including the Royal Society for ...
Tags: minimum unit price, alcohol
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SPTS Wins Fifth Consecutive Rospa Gold Award for Occupational Health & Safety
Sep 5, 2017SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has won a ...
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National Sleep Strategy Plea Backed by Leading Bed Indie
Apr 5, 2016An 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 ...
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a Scientist Has Been Awarded an ERC Advanced Grant
Jul 13, 2015A scientist from James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to undertake research on the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the inheritance of genetic characteristics ...
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MEPs Lend Support to Include Labels with Calorie Values on All Alcoholic Drinks
May 5, 2015Members of European Parliament (MEPs) have lent support to include labels with calorie values on all alcoholic drinks. Justifying their demand, public health experts said that such labels were important for consumers to make informed ...
Tags: alcoholic drinks, drinks
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Professor Martin Kuball Receives The UK Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award
Mar 24, 2015Professor Martin Kuball of the University of Bristol's School of Physics in the UK is one of 19 people to receive the UK Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK's Department for ...
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Liquid Crystal Chemist Has Won AkzoNobel's UK Science Award for 2014
Mar 4, 2014A British scientist whose work helped form the basis for flat-screen TVs, computers and mobile phone displays has won AkzoNobel's UK Science Award for 2014. Professor John Goodby, FRS, Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of ...
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New Research Quantifying The Risk of Admission to Hospital Has Identified a Raised Risk
Feb 26, 2014New research quantifying the risk of admission to hospital for self-harm has identified a raised risk of self-harm among groups of patients with certain physical illnesses. While it is known that psychiatric illnesses are associated with a ...
Tags: Risk of Self-Harm, Certain Physical Illnesses, migraine, psoriasis, eczema
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The Internet Makes Us Look Smarter It Might Be Making Us Stupider
Feb 26, 2014In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface scientists have found that whilst mass connectivity through social media and the internet makes us look smarter it might be making us stupider. Copying other people has ...
Tags: social media, experiment, copy
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Societal Pressures Has a Direct Effect on The Spread of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Feb 18, 2014Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
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Methods Used by Musicians to Stay Is Revealed in Tempo with Each Other by Study
Feb 8, 2014(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from the U.K. and Germany has found that musicians playing in a string quartet keep time with one another in two distinctly different ways. One, way, the team explains in their paper ...
Tags: tempo, Royal Society, instrument, democratic
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Scientists in The United States Had Built The World's First Jellyfish Aircraft
Jan 15, 2014Inspired by nature and by the aviation pioneers of the early 20th century, scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had built the world's first jellyfish aircraft. The tiny, ultra-light lab machine, weighing just 2.1 grammes ...
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A New Species of Big Cat That Is Most Closely Related to The Modern Day Snow Leopard
Jan 9, 2014After years of sleuthing for clues about where and when pantherine felids ("big cats") originated, a Smithsonian scientist and an international team of researchers are one step closer to understanding the evolutionary history of these ...
Tags: pantherine felids, big cats, Smithsonian scientist, evolutionary history
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A Starfish Has an Eye at The End of Each Arm
Jan 9, 2014A starfish has an eye at the end of each arm. While scientists have known about the existence of these eyes for about two hundred years, until now, they haven't been able to find out what starfish can see or what starfish use their eyes ...
Tags: starfish, morphological study, compound eyes, habitat
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Competition May Have a High Cost for at Least One Species of Tropical Seaweed
Jan 9, 2014Competition may have a high cost for at least one species of tropical seaweed. Researchers examining the chemical warfare taking place on Fijian coral reefs have found that one species of seaweed increases its production of noxious ...
Tags: tropical seaweed, chemical warfare, Fijian coral reefs, chemical defense