Teachers Get Mental Health Training, Help Students

VOA Learning English • voa
April 11, 2022 ~5 min

How to train your dog in basic 'life' skills - and why it's important

A happy and fulfilling relationship with your canine companion is built on good training

Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
March 14, 2022 ~7 min


50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to – the biology of how muscles change with age

As people age, the chemical signaling pathways in muscles become less potent, and it gets harder to build muscle and maintain strength. But the health benefits of strength training only increase with age.

Roger Fielding, Associate Director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University • conversation
Feb. 2, 2022 ~8 min

The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired new health habits for these 4 scholars – here's what they put into practice and why

The new year is a perfect time to adopt new health habits and routines. These four scholars reflect on the ways that they overcame the pandemic blues to get fit.

L. Alison Phillips, Associate Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University • conversation
Jan. 12, 2022 ~10 min

Government must back UK train travel or risk long-term retreat to cars

Until train use recovers, a new approach to rail funding is needed.

Stephen Joseph, Visiting Professor, Smart Mobility Research Unit, University of Hertfordshire • conversation
Dec. 3, 2021 ~7 min

'That Train Has Left the Station!' (or...It's too late)

VOA Learning English • voa
Sept. 11, 2021 ~4 min

Kids' grip strength is improving, but other measures of muscle fitness are getting worse

Overall muscle fitness among children and teens hasn’t declined over the past several decades, but by some measures it’s not improving, either.

Justin J. Lang, Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa • conversation
July 26, 2021 ~8 min

Smartphones are powerful personal pocket computers – should schools ban them?

Phones have the potential to help children learn, but UK teachers need evidence-based guidance on phone use in schools

Miranda Pallan, Reader in Public Health & Epidemiology, University of Birmingham • conversation
May 10, 2021 ~7 min


Short-haul flight ban is a good start – now we need to reimagine the modern airport

Banning short-haul flights should be just the first step on the path to greener transport systems.

Luis Delgado, Senior Research Fellow on Air Transport, University of Westminster • conversation
April 28, 2021 ~6 min

Scientists need to become better communicators, but it's hard to measure whether training works

#Scicomm is a hashtag, and there are many programs that claim to teach scientists how to be better communicators. But it's hard to show exactly what they're accomplishing.

Robert Capers, Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut • conversation
April 7, 2021 ~9 min

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