A change in marital status affects the number of daily steps

(University of Jyväskylä - Jyväskylän yliopisto) Changes in relationships have links to physical activity. The total number of non-exercise steps was reduced during a four-year follow-up study for men who divorced. For women who found a new spouse between the measurement points, the total steps decreased significantly when compared to women married throughout the period.

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Research: A third of hospitalized adolescents with life-threatening anorexia are not thin

(University of Melbourne) Health workers are being urged to closely monitor adolescents losing weight after a study of patients with anorexia nervosa found 31 per cent had all the cognitive features and physical complications of the disease without being underweight.

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Artificial intelligence tracks biological age at every level and rewinds the aging clock

(InSilico Medicine, Inc.) Artificial Intelligence for Aging and Longevity Research: Recent Advances and Perspectives" in Ageing Research Reviews. The paper introduces recent advances in deep learning for aging research and provides fair insight into the field.

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Children perform better when parents are involved in school life

(National Research University Higher School of Economics) A family's involvement in a child's education acts as a source of social mobility, according to a study by experts from the HSE Centre of Social and Economic School Development, Mikhail Goshin and Tatyana Mertsalova https://ift.tt/2RwqmJs. Lower income parents who actively participate in their children's school life open up more opportunities for their children.

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KAIST seals the deal for Kenya KAIST project

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) KAIST will participate in Kenya's strategic economic development plan under the provision of a turnkey-based science and technology education consultancy for the establishment of the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kenya KAIST).

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Learning to read comes at a cost

(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Learning how to read may have some disadvantages for learning grammar. Children who cannot read yet often treat multiword phrases as wholes ('how-are-you'). After learning to read, children notice individual words more, as these are separated by spaces in written language ('how are you').

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Dads, not just moms, can pass along mitochondrial DNA

Data from three families suggest that in rare cases children can inherit mitochondria from their fathers.

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