Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child “Pesticides linked to cancer found in 60 per cent of PLAYGROUNDS, scientists warn – with residues detected on swings and slides A Recent Tabloi headline That’s the headline readers were greeted with in a recent Daily Mail article. It’s the kind of headline designed to stop you mid-scroll. Children, cancer,…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Recently a rather scary headline hit several newspapers. Making claims like: Toxic chemicals found on swings and slides That sounds really scary. But is it true? As we know at Trailblaizing Science HQ you can’t always believe everything you read. So lets take a deep dive into the…
Liposomes. Annie Cavanagh. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Mary Poppins once sang: “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” A catchy song, but little did she know just how true that statement could become. Who would have thought that she might actually have been predicting the future of high-tech, ultra-precise nanoscale drug-delivery…
Liposomes. Annie Cavanagh. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child “Just a… spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go dooooown!” Photo by Immo Wegmann on Unsplash You know that song from Mary Poppins? Well, it turns out it might actually be true! Scientists have found a clever way to use sugar to help medicines travel to exactly the right…
Photo by Bart Ros: https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunlight-between-trees-in-forest-10915473/ Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child From Heatwaves to Forest Shade: Can Tree Types Help Cool a Warming Europe? If you live in Europe, you’ve probably noticed that our summers are getting hotter. Perhaps you’ve seen the news about the extreme heatwaves sweeping across the continent, with temperatures above 40 °C…
Photo by Bart Ros: https://www.pexels.com/photo/sunlight-between-trees-in-forest-10915473/ Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Think back to the hottest day you can remember. Did the heat make you feel tired or unwell? Standing in the sun without any shade can be really uncomfortable! In Europe (and in many other parts of the world), summers are getting hotter and…
Image: Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM. University of Oxford, Richard Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child You might not have heard of it before, but there’s a disease called Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, or CL for short. It’s caused by a teeny-tiny parasite that lives inside sand flies (yes, those little buzzing insects!). When an infected…
Image: Leishmania mexicana parasites in the promastigote stage, SEM. University of Oxford, Richard Wheeler. Source: Wellcome Collection. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child You might not have heard of it, but Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is far from rare. Caused by a tiny parasite carried by sand flies, it leaves slow-healing wounds that can develop into lasting scars….
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine you’re an astronaut coming back to Earth after weeks of exploring space. You feel amazing after such an incredible adventure.But deep inside your body, something surprising is happening: your cells (the tiny building blocks that make up everything inside you) are stressed! NASA astronaut Anne McClain is…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Astronauts may return to Earth looking triumphant, but inside their bodies, time seems to move faster.A new study shows that just a month in space can accelerate ageing in human blood-forming stem cells. NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft. NASA Headquarters…
