study Nutri-Score contributes to healthier eating The so-called "Nutri-Score", a colored nutritional labeling on a finished product. photo © Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa Similar to refrigerators, there is also a label with classifications for food: the Nutri-Score is intended to help with a healthier diet. Researchers have studied whether this works. The Nutri-Score helps consumers to identify foods containing sugar and thus contributes to a healthier diet. This is what scientists from the University of Göttingen report after a study in the...
schools Business-related education study: Saxony ahead The flag of the Free State of Saxony. photo © Sebastian Kahnert/dpa How do the federal states reduce educational poverty, contribute to securing skilled workers and promote growth? According to a study by the German Economic Institute, Saxony comes out on top. From the point of view of the business-related Initiative New Social Market Economy (INSM), Saxony has the best education system in Germany. In the Education Monitor published, a comparative study by the...
study Young people a little less online - but more than before Corona A young man is playing an online computer game. photo © Lino Mirgeler/dpa/archive image At 67.8 hours per week, the online time of 16 to 18 year olds decreased slightly in 2022. However, it is still well above the value of the pre-Corona year 2019. Relaxed corona rules and fewer digital lessons: According to a recent study, young people’s internet use decreased slightly in the third year...
Climate change presents cities and communities with challenges that are not necessarily apparent at first glance. Among other things, whether enough defibrillators are available in all districts. Because experts assume that global warming will increase heat-related heart attacks. Authorities therefore want to make the devices that first responders can use to revive the patient in the event of a cardiac arrest available everywhere as far as possible. Many devices are now freely accessible in central places so that they are...
Good to know Anger, fear or sadness: Why do we actually cry? why are we crying Researchers have found that there are different reasons why we shed tears. © Ivan Aleksic / Unsplash 08/16/2022, 18:15 3 min reading time We humans are the only creatures that cry for emotional reasons. But which ones are they exactly? A research team from Germany and Great Britain has summarized five categories. A touching love story, terrible news or the anger that boils up...
Of Melanie Hoffman | Aug 16, 2022 at 4:51 am What is more useful when it comes to building muscle strength: train more often, but for a shorter time, or only once a week, but for a longer period of time? A new study got to the bottom of this question. Just recently, a study result gave people with little free time hope. It actually said you could do sports on the weekends can "catch up"..1 It was about the...
Science Study: Global famines caused by regional nuclear war A malnourished child lies in a hospital in Yemen. According to a study, a regional nuclear war could trigger global famine. photo © Mohammed Mohammed/XinHua/dpa A nuclear war could cause far more casualties from famine than from the explosions. Soot particles in the atmosphere would severely reduce harvests. Even a regional nuclear war, such as between India and Pakistan, could trigger famine worldwide. This is based on model calculations that have...
climate study Researchers predict "megaflood" that will flood half of California The town of Elk Grove in the Sacramento area © Bill_Dally / Getty Images 08/14/2022, 21:14 2 min reading time California suffers from drought and wildfires. But now a climate study is causing a stir that warns of an even greater catastrophe - a mega flood like in the Hollywood blockbuster. They already have enough weather catastrophes in California. Heat, drought and forest fires are making the most populous...
Current study Caught in a vicious circle: The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the world – with catastrophic consequences Icebergs float in Baffin Bay, near the Greenland settlement of Pituffik, on July 15. Observations by the observation satellite ICESAT-2 show an enormous thinning of the Arctic sea ice in just three years © Kerem Yücel / AFP 08/13/2022, 5:50 p.m 3 min reading time The north is thawing – and much faster than previously assumed....
Status: 08/12/2022 5:48 p.m The causes of the late effects of Corona are still unknown, as it is not clear which symptoms are caused by the infection and which are not. A long-term study in North Rhine-Westphalia is now intended to clarify this. Julia Radzwill is patiently having her blood drawn in the post-Covid outpatient clinic at Cologne University Hospital. The 38-year-old biologist has already had two infections and had previously been vaccinated twice. With the first infection in October...
