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According to a new study, teenagers take a lot of risks while driving. For example, they change clothes and do many other tasks, which lead to major distractions. The study was conducted by the Journal of Transportation Safety and Security and it conducted the study on approximately 1,000 drivers between the ages of 14 and 18 in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The study was conducted to observe what caused distractions while driving.

According to NPR, the researchers found that some teenagers reported that they even do makeup and change contact lenses while driving besides changing clothes and shoes and doing homework.

Bill Gates, a renounced American business magnate, said it is high time for the world to be prepared to deal with a global epidemic.

He said now when the Ebola epidemic is subsiding people and governments across the world need to learn a lesson from it.

In an Op-ed in the New York Times, Gates stated that developing countries highly need technology to map epidemics. And several groups who work societal welfare need more number of volunteers and officials to develop more sophisticated methods of keeping data on an outbreak.

“If anything good can come from this continuing tragedy, it is that Ebola can awaken the world to a sobering fact: We are simply not prepared to deal with a global epidemic”, he wrote.

An article was published yesterday by the New York Times to raise concern over potential of smartwatches to cause cancer. The article had a headline: “Could wearable computers be as harmful as cigarettes?” But it was soon changed by the editors to make it sound less exaggerated, but the article itself spoke a lot about the risk of cancer from the radiation emitted by the smartphones and smartwatches.

Many science journalists were left in rage by the article for it being based on debunked studies and deriving conclusions from the work of a doctor generally regarded as a quack.

A study conducted by RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, has found that a law by Los Angeles designed to solve the obesity problem in low-income areas by banning the opening of new fast-food restaurants has failed to reduce consumption of fast-food. The ordinance has also failed to reduce obesity rates in the targeted neighborhoods, the study found.

According to reports, the fast-food restrictions in the Los Angeles were passed in 2008. The new study has found that obesity rates in South Los Angeles and other targeted neighborhoods have increased faster than other parts of the city. The study by RAND Corporation has been published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

A first assessment of the Europe's bee populations has shown that the continent's wild bee population has been declining dramatically. According to the assessment, out of the continent's nearly 2,000 bee species, about 10% species of the wild bee in the Europe have been facing the threat of extinction.

In addition, the study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) stated that more than 5% bee species could be threatened in the near future, while more than 25% of the species at risk of becoming less common in the continent.

On Thursday, the World Lung Foundation (WLF) released a report, as per which the tobacco industry makes around $7,000 per smoking-related death every year. In 2013, the tobacco industry had revenue of $44 billion. Also, 6.3 million consumers lost their lives due to tobacco-related illness.

The WLF estimates that the average is around $6,900 in revenue per death. The report unveiled that if the trend continues to take place then nearly a billion tobacco consumers will die from smoking or tobacco exposure in this century.