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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 8-Jul-2025 03:10 ET (8-Jul-2025 07:10 GMT/UTC)

3-Jul-2025

Teens report spending 21% of each driving trip looking at their phone

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study offers a stark reminder of how pervasive cell phone use while driving is for young people, as findings demonstrate teen drivers spend an average of 21.1% of each trip viewing their mobile behind the wheel.

Journal: Traffic Injury Prevention
Funder: Google, Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation

3-Jul-2025

Study explores the ‘social norms’ of distracted driving among teens

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study offers a stark reminder of how pervasive cell phone use while driving is among young people.

Journal: Traffic Injury Prevention
Funder: Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation

2-Jul-2025

Enhancing the “feel-good” factor of urban vegetation using AI and street view images

The University of Osaka
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from The University of Osaka have developed a method to visualize and reconstruct individual urban plants in different seasons using AI and street view images. The novel Seasonal Species-Specific Plant View Index allows urban designers to enhance the ecological sustainability and the well-being of city dwellers by incorporating diverse plant configurations, colors, and seasonality into current and future urban green spaces.

Journal: Landscape Ecology

2-Jul-2025

Billions voted in 2024, but major new report exposes cracks in global democracy

University of East Anglia
Reports and Proceedings

A new report from the University of East Anglia has raised concerns about the state of democracy around the world during 2024’s ‘Super Cycle’ of elections.

Described by Time Magazine as the ‘Year of Elections’, 2024 saw 1.6 billion people head to the polls across 74 national elections in 62 countries - an unprecedented concentration of democratic activity in a single year.

But a global report from the Electoral Integrity Project, released today, paints a mixed and often troubling picture of how those elections were conducted.

2-Jul-2025

Green transition will boost UK productivity

University of Exeter
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The green transition will boost productivity across the UK economy, new research suggests.

Journal: Climate Policy
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

2-Jul-2025

Support networks may be the missing link for college students who seek help for excessive drinking

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

College students who want help overcoming high-risk drinking could benefit from a two-pronged approach that combines an individual-focused psychological theory with social network analysis. That’s according to a new study from Texas A&M University School of Public Health Assistant Professor Benjamin Montemayor and former doctoral student Sara Flores, both in the Department of Health Behavior.

Journal: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

2-Jul-2025

Perceived social status tied to cardiovascular risks in women but not in men

McGill University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Women who see themselves as having lower social status are more likely than other people to show early signs of heart stress linked to future disease risk, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill and Concordia universities.

Journal: Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine
Funder: Courtois Cardiovascular Biorepository Program