Research Team Discovers Maximum Weight Children Must Carry in School Backpacks

POLICY 07.03.2019 08:51 AM

Schoolchildren who use backpacks should avoid carrying loads greater than 10 percent of their body weight

Friends, Not Fitbit, More Predictive of Health, Says Studies

06.28.2019 10:29 AM

What the researchers discovered was the social network structure provides a significant improvement in predictability of wellness states of an individual over using the data derived from wearables, like the number of steps or heart rate

Single Vermont Bill Prohibits Usage of Four Major Single-Use Plastic Waste Sources

06.28.2019 10:28 AM

Vermont has joined the environmental effort with restrictions on using shopping bags, drinks tears, straws, and for him for food packaging has been implemented.

Pornography Consumption Increase Unethical Behavior at Work

06.25.2019 23:41 PM

Consumption of pornography heightens the propensity of the viewer to view others as objects or less than human

Atlanta’s 7-Acre Free Food Forest

06.21.2019 09:34 AM

Eighty-five percent of the city’s residents will be within one-half mile of fresh food by 2021. Atlanta has a large expanse of land, over seven acres, in fact, that wasn't being used.

India Will Be the World’s Most Populated Nation by 2027, Says UN Report

06.20.2019 11:16 AM

India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report.

China Sees US Marijuana Legalization as a Threat

06.18.2019 17:32 PM

China severely punishes those caught smuggling or trafficking drugs, including foreigners. Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, describing it as a "new threat to China.

Cartoon-Based Ads for e-Cigarette May Increase Likelihood of Vaping, Study Says

06.14.2019 14:53 PM

Cartoon imagery used by some companies is part of the constellation of variables that make people susceptible to future use of e-cigarettes

Researchers Utilize Facebook to Reach Larger, More Diverse Groups of People

06.14.2019 09:11 AM

When researchers compared results from their Genes for Good analyses to those from well-cited papers, they mostly matched

Evolutionary Discovery Sets to Rewrite Textbooks

06.12.2019 17:02 PM

Multi-celled animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor resembling a modern sponge cell known as a choanocyte

New Study Recommends Regulation on Low-Priced Alcopops that Pose High Risk Especially for Youth

06.12.2019 16:54 PM

Regulatory agencies should reduce the availability and alcohol-by-volume of these products and increase their retail price to reduce and prevent unsafe alcohol consumption

One in Five UK Children Affected By Persistent Poverty

06.12.2019 11:26 AM

Persistent poverty has a connection with poorer mental, social, and behavioral development in children, as well as worse educational outcomes, employment prospects, and earning power into adulthood

New Findings Show Pesticide DDT Persists in Remote Lakes at Concerning Levels

06.12.2019 11:24 AM

Pesticide use can result in persistent and permanent changes in aquatic ecosystems The pesticide DDT persists in remote lakes at concerning levels half a century it was banned, affecting critical marine species and potentially entire lake food webs, according to new findings of a multi-university research team published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

Study Finds Ability to Deceive is a Sign of Competence in Jobs That Require Selling

06.11.2019 16:55 PM

The key findings of the survey were participants believed that liars would be more successful in high-selling occupations like banking, advertising, and sales than low-selling orientation occupations like nonprofit management and accounting

New Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

06.10.2019 06:03 AM

The Marijuana Justice Act of 2019 will legalize the plant and expunge the criminal records of anyone who had been charged with possession.