In a press statement on November 15th, Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the FDA, stated that he would direct the FDA to issue a number of decrees that would aim to limit the distribution of electronic nicotine delivery systems(ENDS) products to teenagers, especially flavored products. The FDA’s actions respond to a rapid
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The kilogram, kelvin, and mole, as of the 26th meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measurements, have new definitions. The Kilogram Before the meeting, the kilogram was a set to the Le Grand K, a platinum alloy cylinder that resides in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in France. It was created as the
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The internationally acclaimed Nobel Prize is bestowed annually on people who have conferred “the greatest benefit on mankind” in six categories: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Peace, Chemistry, Literature, and Economic Sciences (not technically a Nobel prize, but awarded with the other prizes). The Nobel prizes are awarded by institutes in
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For the first time, scientists in Shanghai have successfully cloned a primate, creating two identical female crab-eating macaque monkeys named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua. The scientists performed the cloning in December 2017, and published their findings in the journal Cell in January 2018. The scientists used somatic cell nuclear
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In the universe, there is a multitude of fascinating stars, from Sirius, a star so large that if it was placed at the center of the solar system it would extend past Jupiter, to quark stars, neutron stars with gravity so strong that the neutrons at the core dissolve into
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