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We are often told to follow our religions with full faith and discipline, but is this actually helping in our better is still a doubt. Researchers through a new study have found that children who have religious households are found to be less generous as compared to those with nonreligious background.

The researchers for the study published on Thursday in the journal of Current Biology examined the behaviors of 1,151 children between the ages of 5 to 12. The study included kids from six different countries.

The researchers measured the level of unselfishness among children through several activities, ranging from sharing and reactions to social injustices.

Scientists since long have been trying to understand why the Red Planet is so warm, but it seems they will very soon get an answer to it. The scientists said the new readings from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) could help explain the disappearance of the atmosphere.

Scientists said that the air from the atmosphere of Mars is leaking at about half a pound a second and spread into the space.

Earlier it was thought that the atmosphere of the Red Planet’s was far thicker than that of earth’s atmosphere today.

The new reading from MEVEN shows that when Mars get hit by a solar storm caused due to heavily charged particles coming from the Sun its upper atmosphere gets ruptured very quickly.

Residents of California will decide in 2016 whether porn films' actors have to wear condoms while shooting a porn movie. Whatever Californians will decide, it is going to affect the state's adult film industry.

The secretary of state's office announced on Wednesday that the plan has qualified for the ballot, and in November 2016, people in California will vote on it. The initiative qualified after its supporters succeeded in getting about 366,000 valid petition signatures, as per the office.

The California Secretary of State said the initiative qualified for voting after getting over 500,000 signatures. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation leaders submitted the signatures. The foundation proposed the initiative for ballot as the 'California Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act'.

The March of Dimes has released its annual Premature Birth Report Card, and Rhode Island has got good grades on preemies. The 8th annual report card has given B grade to the state for relatively low number of premature babies born every year.

Rhode Island has ranked15th best in the country for low disparity in premature birth in rates between white people and other ethnic groups. Last year, the birth rate under 37 weeks of gestation was 8.7% for the state, as per the annual report card. The rate helped the state earn B grade and take a step forward to meet its goal of 8.1% by 2020.

The number of E. coli food-poisoning cases associated with Chipotle restaurants in the Northwest is continuously rising, with the number reaching 29 in Washington. On Wednesday, health officials reported that in Oregon the number has gone down from 12 to 10, however, a total of 39 are confirmed in the outbreak.

So far, 14 people have been hospitalized, with no reports of deaths. The Mexican fast-food chain's operated 43 restaurants remained shut in the 2 states as regional health officials scramble to know the genetic fingerprint of specific cases and federal officials have designated outbreak-response teams for help.

Many of the cases seem to be caused by E. coli O26, so far. E. coli O26 is a strain producing Shiga toxins that can result into serious illness.

On Wednesday, a US Senate panel launched a bipartisan probe into pharmaceutical pricing in quest of documents from four drugmakers, including Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Turing Pharmaceuticals, the companies that were a part of a controversy over price hikes of lifesaving drugs.

As per a statement from the panel's Republican Chairwoman Susan Collins and Claire McCaskill, its top Democrat, the Senate's Special Committee on Aging has also asked for information from Retrophin Inc and Rodelis Therapeutics.

Furthermore, on Wednesday, a US House of Representatives investigative committee's Democratic members asked Republicans for calling a vote to subpoena Valeant and Turing.