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Researchers from King's College London have carried out the first comprehensive study of fine particles on the London Underground to evaluate the exposure of people travelling on different parts of the network.

You may feel like you can't do anything to stop climate change. But climate activists who joined in grassroots movements managed to cut their carbon footprints and were still happier than their non-activist peers, new research shows.

This is the first study that differentiates between screen size and information reduction, which are often mixed up. The findings will be presented next month at the International Conference on Information Systems, the top academic conference in the field.

Nearly two-thirds of American parents of children under 18 (65%) report at least one economic, environmental, or lifestyle factor that limits their family's ability to live a healthy life, according to a new nationwide survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Nemours Children's Health System. Eighty percent of parents believe that they have sufficient resources to raise healthy children, but a majority also cite serious obstacles to staying healthy.

Researchers have designed multiplayer games occupants of autonomous vehicles can play with other players in nearby self-driving cars. A new study, led by researchers from the University of Waterloo details three games created for level three and higher semi-autonomous vehicles. The researchers also made suggestions for many exciting types of in-car games for future exploration.

Big data application is an emerging field in climate change adaptation. Our new valuation approach using mobile phone network data reveals that there are substantial spatial-seasonal heterogeneity of current coastal tourism values across Japan. However, the most coastal tourism values would disappear under climate change. The findings imply changes in beach ranks enable to discuss policy priorities. This unique approach applies to a wide variety of climate-vulnerable ecosystem services.

To better understand and predict the outcomes of the steering wheel control dilemma, contrary to many previous studies, in a paper published in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Dr. Xiaoxiang Na and Dr. David J. Cole from University of Cambridge argued that using the cooperative game theory to model this type of interaction problems may be more suitable.

A new study publishing in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that people living in neighborhoods considered to be the least walkable were up to 33% more likely to have a high predicted 10-year cardiovascular risk compared to individuals living in the most walkable neighborhoods.

Skilled pilots approaching a runway usually can't see small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) encroaching on their airspace, and they virtually never detect motionless drones, researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Oklahoma State University have reported.