Investors who evaluate companies using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are increasingly expected to act as private regulators, using their influence as stakeholders to pressure firms to act more sustainably. New research published in Strategic Management Journal finds companies under strong ESG investor pressure do generate lower direct emissions; however, they sometimes shift pollution to suppliers, which doesn’t change their combined emissions. The study also found evidence that this outsourcing can become reduced when investors help firms adopt eco-friendly technologies and directly oversee supplier practices.

A recent survey-based study of medical students across Jordan has found that those who meet the criteria for mobile gaming addiction are significantly more likely to experience pain in their neck, upper back, elbows, and wrists — and that elbow pain in particular is more than four times more common in addicted students than in their non-addicted peers, even after accounting for age, gender, and body measurements.

Early school starts and weekend lie ins could be contributing to anxiety in teenagers, a new study has found.

Researchers at the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have presented RusLan-M, an open multimedia corpus that makes it possible to trace the development of early child speech in Russian from first words to the emergence of complex grammatical constructions. The database contains around 41 hours of video recordings and more than 35,000 child utterances. The new resource will help researchers study more precisely how children acquire Russian and, in the longer term, develop more reliable tools for assessing speech development. The study has been published in Language Resources and Evaluation.