Cambridge University researchers have discovered that a caterpillar can eat plastic. Scientists conducted experiments and found a caterpillar that traditionally eats wax found in beehives can break down the chemical components of plastic.

Around the world, manufacturers produce 80 million tons of plastic each year. The plastic is used to make a variety of things including shopping bags, toys, and the packaging around food products. Currently, it takes hundreds of years for the plastic to decompose. However, larvae of a particular type of moth, wax moth Galleria mellonella, can make holes in a plastic bag in under an hour.

Dr. Paolo Bombelli, a biochemist at Cambridge University and researcher in the study, explained that the Caterpillar would be the starting point. The next step will be to understand how this process operates. Ultimately, Dr. Bombelli hopes to provide a technical solution for decreasing the amount of plastic waste.

At this time, researchers believe microbes living within the Caterpillar as well as the insect itself may play a role in breaking down the plastic. If scientists can discover the chemical process, then it could lead to a solution to decreasing the amount of plastic waste on planet Earth.

Researchers are planning to create and find a viable way to get rid of plastic waste and work on a solution to save the environment.

Finding this caterpillar marks the first step to biodegrade plastic. Researchers published the study in the Journal of Current Biology.

A new study from Zendrive, which is being called the largest distracted driving study ever conducted so far, found that 88% of-of all trips are made while using a mobile device in some way. Researchers examined over 3 million in anonymous drivers. Over the course of the study, researchers found that over the course of 570 million trips and covering 5.6 billion cumulative miles the amount of time a phone is used in an hour driving is approximately 3.5 minutes or 6% of the entire drive. As a result, scientists discovered that over the course of the study 280 million miles cumulatively were driven while distracted.

Previous research has found that distracted driving increases the chances of a collision of over 20 times. The data in the survey averaged out about 600 million trips during the study in which distracted driving took place at some point in time. Further analysis of the data found that on average, the survey group engaged in distracted driving roughly 105 times per hour per person.

Over the past two years, there has been an increase in traffic accident fatalities, according to Zendrive. However, the rise in a road accident deaths cannot all be attributed to smartphones. Of course, the implications of distracted driving a pretty clear. All over the world, people use their phones while driving to changes songs, modify the GPS donations, or visit social networks. Researchers analyzing the data found that all of these activities are extremely dangerous. However, Silicon Valley is working on alternatives by providing other types of apps that force applications to use Bluetooth and artificial intelligence assistants to keep drivers focus on the road and instead of looking at their cell phone.

Moreover, researchers found the most distracted state in the United States is Vermont followed by Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

According to a new study, the trans-fat ban is linked to fewer heart attacks and strokes.

After New York banned trans fat in restaurants, the rates of heart attacks and stroke have dropped in the state. Researchers discovered that only three years after the prohibition and restriction of trans fat in restaurants was introduced to New York counties that banned trans fats experienced a 6.2% reduction in hospital admissions for heart attacks and strokes. Meanwhile, in comparison to New York counties that did not have the same restrictions.

As a result, the trans fat ban led to a 43 fewer heart attacks and strokes per 100,000 adults ages 25 and older in New York counties where trans fat was banned. The study was published today in the Journal JAMA Cardiology.

While the results of the survey were very encouraging, scientists were not that’s us prized as researchers early estimates predicted a 6.2% decline in cardiovascular deaths. Moreover, a 2009 study predicted that nearly eliminating trans fat from someone’s diet could prevent between 6 to 19% of heart disease related events.

The FDA is currently planning a national restriction against trans fats starting 2018. The FDA restrictions on transfer that will ban manufacturers and food preparers from using oils that contain unhealthy fats within the food. As a result, these new restrictions would nearly eliminate trans fat from foods, restaurants, and grocery stores throughout the country.

Restaurants and food companies have been gradually making steps towards eliminating trans fats from their foods and products in preparation for the upcoming 2018 FDA ban. That said, trans fats are found in a variety of foods including baked goods, fried foods, bread and other food products, according to the researchers in the study.

This news comes after a study found obese parents are less a child development issues. Currently, two out of three Americans are clinically obese, and researchers found overweight fathers and mothers leads to not only motor skills problems but also social issues.