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Chartwells K12's Hot Chocolate Milk Concept Launches in More than 55 Schools Across the Nation

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Monday, January 29, 2024

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Students can wrap their hands around a cup of comfort this winter with Chartwells K12's new Hot Chocolate Milk concept. Featuring delicious hot chocolate milk served during breakfast and lunch, kids can enjoy their mug of cocoa with an array of tempting toppings as they create their custom specialty beverage in the school cafeteria. The concept is launching in over 55 pilot schools this month, including Harper Creek Schools (Mich.), Hockinson School District (Wash.), and Stamford Public Schools (Conn.).

Key Points: 
  • CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Students can wrap their hands around a cup of comfort this winter with Chartwells K12's new Hot Chocolate Milk concept.
  • The concept is launching in over 55 pilot schools this month, including Harper Creek Schools (Mich.), Hockinson School District (Wash.), and Stamford Public Schools (Conn.).
  • Partnering with National Dairy Council to launch the concept, Chartwells K12 is serving hot chocolate milk in schools participating in the pilot program.
  • Whether students top off their hot chocolate milk with a sprinkle of cinnamon or a hint of peppermint, kids can personalize their hot chocolate milk with a variety of flavorful toppings.

brelixi® Introduces Fast-Acting + Flavorless Functional Powders In CBD And THC Formats

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In a pioneering move that epitomizes brelixi®'s commitment to innovation, the nano-cannabis company is shaking up the scene with the launch of its flavorless + functional fast-acting powders. Available in both THC and CBD formats, this release marks a significant stride toward merging the wellness and cannabis industries.

Key Points: 
  • Available in both THC and CBD formats, this release marks a significant stride toward merging the wellness and cannabis industries.
  • brelixi's flavorless + functional fast-acting powders empower consumers to enjoy the benefits of functional ingredients and cannabis however they'd prefer.
  • These flavorless powders use advanced nano-emulsification for optimized cannabinoid absorption, ensuring increased bioavailability and rapid onset of effects.
  • For relaxation, brelixi's flavorless CBD nano powder provides 20 mgs of CBD per serving, with 30 servings per jar (600 mg) available for $59.99.

Pure Glow Announces First Franchisee in Phoenix

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

BOSTON, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Glow, the healthy, modern, and most effective alternative to conventional tanning, has officially announced Kelli Caires as the brand's first franchisee. With Kelli and Pure Glow's area agreement, Kelli will be looking to open three Pure Glow locations in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas, with her first location opening by the end of the summer in Phoenix, Arizona.

Key Points: 
  • BOSTON, Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Glow , the healthy, modern, and most effective alternative to conventional tanning, has officially announced Kelli Caires as the brand's first franchisee.
  • With Kelli and Pure Glow's area agreement, Kelli will be looking to open three Pure Glow locations in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas, with her first location opening by the end of the summer in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • "I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit and drive, and after learning about Pure Glow and meeting with Lauren, I knew we were the perfect fit," said Caires.
  • "With her positive and charismatic personality and her past experience in franchising, we are confident that Kelli will glow in her new role as Pure Glow's first franchisee."

Sodium-Ion Batteries Will Diversify the Energy Storage Industry, Reports IDTechEx

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries are being developed due to their potential costs, safety, sustainability, and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries.

Key Points: 
  • Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries are being developed due to their potential costs, safety, sustainability, and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries.
  • Furthermore, sodium-ion batteries can use aluminum for the anode current collector instead of copper, which is used in lithium-ion cells.
  • Furthermore, they can be safer than lithium-ion batteries as they can be stored at zero volts, causing less risk during transportation.
  • Hence, while current sodium-ion batteries have relatively low energy densities, there is the potential for this to increase in the coming years.

Sodium-Ion Batteries Will Diversify the Energy Storage Industry, Reports IDTechEx

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries are being developed due to their potential costs, safety, sustainability, and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries.

Key Points: 
  • Sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries are being developed due to their potential costs, safety, sustainability, and performance characteristics over traditional lithium-ion batteries.
  • Furthermore, sodium-ion batteries can use aluminum for the anode current collector instead of copper, which is used in lithium-ion cells.
  • Furthermore, they can be safer than lithium-ion batteries as they can be stored at zero volts, causing less risk during transportation.
  • Hence, while current sodium-ion batteries have relatively low energy densities, there is the potential for this to increase in the coming years.

Why is the universe ripping itself apart? A new study of exploding stars shows dark energy may be more complicated than we thought

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Discovered in 1998, this is an unknown form of energy believed to be making the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate.

Key Points: 
  • Discovered in 1998, this is an unknown form of energy believed to be making the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate.
  • In a new study soon to be published in the Astronomical Journal, we have measured the properties of dark energy in more detail than ever before.
  • Our results show it may be a hypothetical vacuum energy first proposed by Einstein – or it may be something stranger and more complicated that changes over time.

What is dark energy?

  • Read more:
    More than 70% of the Universe is made of 'dark energy', the mysterious stuff even stranger than dark matter

    However, in 1998, two teams of researchers found the expansion of the universe was actually accelerating.

  • This implies that something quite similar to Einstein’s cosmological constant may exist after all – something we now call dark energy.
  • Until now, these results have shown the density of dark energy in the universe appears to be constant.

Exploding stars as cosmic measuring sticks


How do we measure what is in the universe and how fast it is growing? We don’t have enormous tape measures or giant scales, so instead we use “standard candles”: objects in space whose brightness we know. Imagine it is night and you are standing on a long road with a few light poles. These poles all have the same light bulb, but the poles further away are fainter than the nearby ones.

  • For astronomers, a common cosmic light bulb is a kind of exploding star called a Type Ia supernova.
  • By measuring how quickly the explosion fades, we can determine how bright it was and hence how far away from us.

The Dark Energy Survey


The Dark Energy Survey is the largest effort yet to measure dark energy. More than 400 scientists across multiple continents work together for nearly a decade to repeatedly observe parts of the southern sky. Repeated observations let us look for changes, like new exploding stars. The more often you observe, the better you can measure these changes, and the larger the area you search, the more supernovae you can find.

  • The first results indicating the existence of dark energy used only a couple of dozen supernovae.
  • The latest results from the Dark Energy Survey use around 1,500 exploding stars, giving much greater precision.
  • Using a specially built camera installed on the 4-metre Blanco Telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, the survey found thousands of supernovae of different types.

More complicated than the cosmological constant

  • To be the cosmological constant, or the energy of empty space, it would need to be exactly –1.
  • With the idea that a more complex model of dark energy may be needed, perhaps one in which this mysterious energy has changed over the life of the universe.
  • Read more:
    From dark gravity to phantom energy: what's driving the expansion of the universe?


Brad E Tucker receives funding from the Australian Research Council and ACT Government.

Where do all of James Bond's gadgets come from? A geologist tells the raw truth

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Laser watches, fingerprint guns, explosives and, of course, over-equipped cars: the list of gadgets flaunted by James Bond is as bewildering as the mind of their inventor, Q.

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  • Laser watches, fingerprint guns, explosives and, of course, over-equipped cars: the list of gadgets flaunted by James Bond is as bewildering as the mind of their inventor, Q.
  • While some of these gadgets actually exist (laser, fingerprint recognition, back reactor), others, as we shall see, are more fanciful.

The fast, inconspicuous cars of the world’s most famous secret agent


In 1964’s Goldfinger, James Bond (Sean Connery) has to give up his Bentley for an Aston Martin DB5 modified by Q (the unforgettable Desmond Llewelyn). This is the first of eight appearances of a car that will go on to become inseparable from 007.
The auto is a good example of how products have become more complex and incorporated a greater diversity of raw materials over time.

  • The DB5 contains an array of minerals, starting with aluminium, a metal known to make cars lighter.
  • The body of the DB5 is made of aluminium and magnesium alloy plates resting on a tubular steel structure.
  • More recently, in Dying Can Wait (2021), the Aston Martin Valhalla is a plug-in hybrid, but James Bond has not yet gone all-electric.

Golden guns that would melt in real life

  • Another cult item is the Walther PPK, the German pistol used by 007 in many of the Bond films.
  • Limited to one shot, the pistol fires bullets of 4.2 mm calibre, weighs 30 g and is made of 23-carat gold with traces of nickel.
  • In jewellery, gold is often combined with silver, copper or zinc to make it wearable.
  • On 4 December 2023, one kilogram of gold was trading at around €66,000, an all-time record (World Gold Council).

James Bond and his high-tech enemies


The saga has also always been about surprising the general public with cutting-edge technology, which may be little known at the time of the film’s release. What better example than the laser, which, should we be reminded, stands short for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The saga likes to beam it as often as possible, alternatively adding it to pistols, watches, cars, and satellites.

  • In Goldfinger (1964), film director Guy Hamilton chooses to bypass Ian Fleming’s novel of the same name by threatening James Bond not with a chainsaw, but a laser.
  • For one, telemetry: from the Greek “tel” (“remote”) and “metros” (“to measure”), this practice consists in remotely measuring physical and electrical data.
  • Physicist Théodore Maiman introduced the first operational laser in the real world in May 1960 (American Physical Society), right before James Bond.


Crystalline lasers: made of silica glass (from very pure quartz) or synthetic ruby or sapphire crystals (aluminium oxide doped with titanium, chromium or rare earths : neodymium, ytterbium, praseodymium, erbium or thulium) ;
Fibre lasers : composed of optical fibres based on silica (derived from ultra-pure quartz) and doped with rare earths (metals extracted mainly from minerals such as bastnaesite, monazite or xenotime) ;
Gas lasers: using helium (extracted from natural gas deposits) and neon (extracted from atmospheric air gases) or CO2 ;
Organic dye lasers.
The red light beam in Goldfinger was emitted from a laser (probably ruby) whose brightness was amplified by special effects. However, the destructive nature of the laser is pure fiction. During filming, an operator used an acetylene torch under the pre-cut table even though Sean Connery was lying on it !

  • It’s a stainless and corrosion-resistant steel that limits the risk of allergic reactions when it comes into contact with the skin.
  • James Bond is like many other citizens, he consumes mineral raw materials on a daily basis.


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First Phosphate Corp. Applauds Comments by Nobel Laureate Stanley Whittingham on LFP Battery Supply Chain in North America

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Friday, November 17, 2023

Saguenay, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - November 17, 2023) - First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS) (OTC Pink: FRSPF) (FSE: KD0) ("First Phosphate" or the "Company") applauds comments regarding the lithium iron phosphate ("LFP") battery supply chain in North America by Nobel Laureate, Stanley Whittingham, at the Benchmark Week 2023 conference held this week in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Saguenay, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - November 17, 2023) - First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS) (OTC Pink: FRSPF) (FSE: KD0) ("First Phosphate" or the "Company") applauds comments regarding the lithium iron phosphate ("LFP") battery supply chain in North America by Nobel Laureate, Stanley Whittingham, at the Benchmark Week 2023 conference held this week in Los Angeles, California.
  • Benchmark Source reported that, "The US should work with Canada to build a regional supply chain for batteries and has 'everything it needs' to build cheaper lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, Whittingham said.
  • We have lithium in this country, we have iron in this country, we have phosphorus in this country and we clearly have lots of oxygen.
  • So we have everything we need in North America to make LFP.

Cytek® Biosciences Introduces the Cytek Orion™ Reagent Cocktail Preparation System, the First-of-its-Kind Automated Cocktail Preparation Instrument for Flow Cytometry

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytek Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTKB), a leading cell analysis solutions company, announced today the introduction of the Cytek Orion™ reagent cocktail preparation system .

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  • FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cytek Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTKB), a leading cell analysis solutions company, announced today the introduction of the Cytek Orion™ reagent cocktail preparation system .
  • Manually preparing reagent cocktails for flow cytometry can be a time-consuming, error-prone process, particularly when panels with more than six colors are being used.
  • The Cytek Orion system, a small, easy-to-operate, fully automated reagent cocktail preparation instrument for flow cytometry, eliminates the need for lab technicians to manually prepare multicolor antibody cocktails for flow cytometry.
  • With the Cytek Orion system, users can mix and manage reagent cocktail combinations of up to 60 individual reagent antibody conjugates.

Jemincare Announces 6 Approvals of Clinical Trials for its Innovative Drugs

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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

On December 20, NMPA has approved a clinical trial for JMKX003801 to treat serious infection caused by Gram-negative bacteria.

Key Points: 
  • On December 20, NMPA has approved a clinical trial for JMKX003801 to treat serious infection caused by Gram-negative bacteria.
  • Drug resistance of antibiotics, especially carbapenem resistance, in Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa has risen year by year.
  • On December 12, NMPA has approved a clinical trial for JMKX003142 to treat renal edema.
  • On December 12, FDA has approved a clinical trial for JMKX000197 to treat BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, and earlier on October 19, NMPA has approved the clinical trial.