How Data Centres Power the Internet and How People Are Fighting to Make Them Green Image by Scott Rodgerson Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child In a village in India, a group of dairy farmers is getting ready for the fight of their lives. Their opponent? The HUGE technology company Microsoft! Photo by Angel…
Image by Scott Rodgerson Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child In Mekaguda, a small village near Hyderabad, the hum of construction and the shadow of a giant data centre have changed daily life for a group of farmers and their families. A David and Goliath battle is unfolding among the grazing cattle and tilled…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Dog ownership’s role in extreme weather is vastly underestimated, new study finds A recent headline from the news Blaming storms on our cute furry friends…is that really fair? At Trailblazing Science HQ, we saw this headline pop up on a few different news sites, so we decided to…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Dog ownership’s role in extreme weather is vastly underestimated, new study finds A recent Headline from Mainstram Media Pinning extreme weather on our furry friends seems… well, extreme? But is it fair? Headlines like this one have recently popped up on a number of different news websites, so…
Image by Julien Harneis., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine getting ready for school, but not being able to go.Your backpack is packed, your friends are waiting — but you’re too tired and sick from a disease called snail fever. Diseases like this don’t just make people…
Image by Julien Harneis., CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine a newborn baby in Bolivia, healthy and full of promise. His family is overjoyed, but hidden inside him is a silent threat: a disease passed on from his mother, one that could quietly damage his heart and…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child In some parts of Africa, a small fly can cause BIG problems. For years, doctors have been puzzling over how to help people who get sick after its bite. Now, they’ve discovered a new, safer medicine, and it could change lives. Meet the Tsetse Fly and the Parasite…
A new study shows a safer, simpler treatment for the deadly, neglected disease that has long challenged rural communities in Africa. Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine being bitten by a fly and falling so ill that you are told your only treatment option carries serious dangers of its own. A tiny parasite…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child A New Way of Seeing What happens when scientists design a camera to see like a fly — and then teach it to think using Artificial Intelligence?The result is a device that sees in nearly every direction at once and doesn’t just see, it understands. Imagine a camera…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Ever tried to swot a fly, only for it to easily fly off before you can get close? This is partly due to their incredible vision. Now, imagine we could develop a camera which could see just like a fly. And think like a super intelligent computer to…
