Zhang Wei

New Zealand, In A Bid To Become Smoke-Free By 2025, Will Be The First Country To Ban Cigarettes By Preventing People Aged 14 And Under From Ever Buying Cigarettes, Begining From The Year 2022. The Plan Would Also See The Reduction In Cigarettes Nicotine Levels Available To Older People. While Also Raising The Smoking Age Year By Year.

Walt Disney Co. Has For The First Time Appointed A Woman, Ms. Susan E. Arnold, As Chairman Of Its Board. Ms. Susan Has Being A Member Of The Disney Board For 14 Years. And She Also Comes With Executive Experiences From Procter & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, And McDonald’s. Ms. Susan Will Succeed Robert Iger Effective December 31st, 2021.

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Sesame Street, The 52-Year-Old Show, Has Added The First Asian American Muppet To Its Show. The Muppet, Called Ji-Young, A 7-Year-Old Korean American Who Loves Playing The Electric Guitar And Skateboarding, Will Usher In Rock Music, Asian Culture And Talk About Racism, Given The Surge In Racism And Violence Targeting Asians And Asian Americans.

Researchers Have Discovered A New Strain Of Coronavirus That Has About 50 Mutations, Compared To The Fewer Than 20 Mutations In The Delta Variant. The New Strain, Called Omicron, Is Said To Pose Very High Risk, And Is Probably The Most Contagious Strain. Omicron Has Been Found In More Than A Dozen Countries Across At Least Five Continents.

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Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.…

The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In This Century And In ~580 Years Will Occur For 3 Hrs And 28 Mins, Begining Late Thursday Night To Early Friday (18th-19th, Nov. 2021) Across The USA. And Spectators Do Not Need Special Glasses To View It. A Partial Lunar Eclipse Occurs When The Sun, Earth, And Moon Are In An Almost Straight Line.

A 6-Year Research, Based On 88,926 Adults, With An Average Age 61, Is Indicating That Falling Asleep Between 10 to 11 p.m May Minimise The Risk For Heart Disease. The Study Shows That Folks Who Fall Asleep Earlier Than 10 p.m. Or At Mid Night/ Later Were Associated With Respective 24% Or 25% Increase In Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease.

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Researchers Are Developing A No Pain Injection, Called Bubble Gum, Which Uses Laser To Push Tiny Droplets Into The Outer Layer Of The Skin In A Process That Is Quicker Than A Mosquito Bite. The Injection, Which May Be Available To The Public In 1-3 Years, Could Help Speed-Up Vaccination As It Eliminates Injection Phobia.

A Researcher Is Stating That The Moon”s Top Rocky Soil Layer Contains Enough Oxygen That Can Sustain 8 Billion People For 100,000 Years. However, The Oxygen, Which Makes Up 45% Of The Lunar Soil, Would Have To Be Extracted From Its Bonded State With, Fortunately, Existing Technology, Increasing The Feasibility For Long Term Moon Base.

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The UAE Hope Probe, Via Its Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Has Found Higher Levels Of Oxygen (Unpredicted Variations Of 50% Or More In The Brightness) In Mars Atmosphere Than The Expected Relative Uniform Oxygen Levels Across Mars. The Discovery Is Said To Have Implications For Existing Martian Atmospheric Models And The Atmosphere Behavior.

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