Vitamin D deficiency was rampant among children during the Industrial Revolution but was partly seasonal, reveals new ...

But the Industrial Revolution contained the seeds of a complete ... The health of older children also improved. Diseases that had carried off thousands of children in 1900 were practically ...

Five years from 2030, when the UN Sustainable Development Goals are expected to be actualised, women's equality remains a significant challenge globally.

Children were a cheap source of labour in ... Some effects of the Industrial Revolution could be seen as positive. Before the Industrial Revolution, employment was tied to the seasons.

We are on the very edge of what will be the next industrial revolution. Manufacturing, shipping, agriculture, mining, and even railroads and transportation stand to be much more productive.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is characterised by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, impacting all disciplines, economies and industries ...