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A new study conducted by researchers has revealed that consumption of fruits and vegetables in students can be increased by teaming up school's cafeteria employees with trained chefs.

The study was conducted by the researchers from Harvard School of Public Health. They found that if schools collaborate with a professional chef, it can get kids to eat healthier foods.

The researchers conducted a school-based randomized clinical trial among 14 elementary and middle schools in two urban, low-income school districts. The study involved 2,638 students in grades three through eight.

After experiencing excruciating abdominal pains for seven months, Tori Riley of O'Fallon was told by her mother to get an ultrasound and cancer was then discovered. Doctors initially thought that her pain was related to acid reflux because she was just 24 years old. But after getting the ultrasound done, she learnt that there were eight tumors in her liver. The tumors were a result of cancer in her colon.

Her mother Lisa Medders, 49, said Tori had stage IV colon cancer and had only four to six months to live. Her diagnosis brought extreme unhappiness for her family members. She died in August 2014 at the age of 26 and her death left her mother in shock.

There is good news for chocoholics as researchers at the University of Ghana have found a way to make chocolate both tasty and nutritious. Scientists explained that cocoa undergoes several steps before it takes shape as a candy bar. The cocoa beans are removed from pods while making chocolate and fermented in baskets, sun-dried afterwards. The beans are finally roasted, which brings out the flavor.

However, some of the healthful polyphenols (antioxidants) are lost during the roasting process. Therefore, the researchers want to figure out a way in order to keep hold of as much of the polyphenols and good flavors as possible.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) experts shocked the agribusiness few days ago when it announced that two pesticides that are widely in use are carcinogenic to humans.

The international committee The Lancet and plans published a brief details explanation of its conclusions. It said that a book-length version of it will be released later this year.

The announcement soon raised several heated reaction, because one of these chemicals, is a pillar of large-scale farming.

Glyphosate which is commonly known as Roundup is the most popular weed killer in the world.

According to the Ohio State University, a study shows that acoustic phonons, the particles accountable for transmission of both sound and heat, have magnetic properties. It has been revealed by the team of researchers that a magnetic field with the same magnitude of MRI helped reduce the amount of heat flowing through a semiconductor by approximately 12%.

According to Joseph Heremans, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Nanotechnology and professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State, "This adds a new dimension to our understanding of acoustic waves. We've shown that we can steer heat magnetically. With a strong enough magnetic field, we should be able to steer sound waves, too".

SpaceX photos are now available for anyone to use and share as the privately held space company has put its images in the public domain at the stroke of a tweet. The chief executive of the company Elon Musk, who is also the chief executive of Tesla Motors Inc., over the weekend, first tweeted that the images would be now available under a Creative Commons License, which can be restrictive.

SpaceX has opened a Flickr channel that will show all Space X photos and will make it available to the public at no charge. Through NASA, people have been seeing space photos among others, since their photos are in the public domain, anyone can use them.