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According to new research, teens are burning the midnight oil texting and chatting with friends. NBC’s Erika Edwards reports. (NBC News Channel)
 

• Wind power capacity to slump from 1,368Mw to 90Mw in 2013• Ministers to announce overhaul of energy market this month Orders for offshore wind turbines in Britain will slump next year, threatening to halt the industry’s recent growth and the expected creation of up to 10,000 “green economy” jobs.Analysts are forecasting a 93% drop [...]

There’s no rest for the politically weary in New Hampshire. Some states were still counting ballots from Tuesday’s midterm election when the first potential presidential candidate arrived in New Hampshire, which will hold the nation’s earliest presi…

Programme to store emissions rather than release them into atmosphere previously only open to coal plantsGas plants will be eligible for the government’s £9bn carbon capture demonstration programme, Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change secretary, will announce tomorrow. The programme had only been open to coal plants, which in future will be required to [...]

Increasingly close encounters with humans are making bears lazy and fat, but also raising potential for violent clashes Magnificent and wild, the grizzly bear of the American west has a fearsome reputation. But as a population boom forces them from their deep wilderness habitat of the Rocky Mountains, their increasingly close encounters [...]

Some people came close, but only one guy predicted the kind of results Election Night produced this year: Andy Smith, director of the UNH Survey Center.

After giving birth to her son last year, Sarah Mann, a mother in Santa Barbara, Calif, became one of an increasing number of women in the United States choosing to breast-feed her children.

Debate is growing within and outside the black community of how to address the rising rate of unwed mothers. Seventy-two percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers, government statistics say — and changing that is a complex issue.
 

ROME (Reuters) – Archaeologists, commentators and opposition politicians accused Italy’s government of neglect and mismanagement on Sunday over the collapse of the 2,000-year-old “House of the…

PEOPLE in Somerset are being warned to watch their weight following a worrying rise in diabetes and obesity levels.

Experts advise that with the return to standard time on Sunday morning, it’s best to change batteries in smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors.

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Restaurants could play an important role in helping to reduce the growing obesity epidemic by creating reduced-calorie meals, according to Penn State researchers.The researchers surveyed chefs, restaurant owners, and culinary executives from …

Researchers have found that men who sit with a computer in their lap could be adversely affecting the quality of their sperm. Authors of the study, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, said there is not really a lot that can be d…