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…
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 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…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine you’re an astronaut floating on the International Space Station. You tip a watering can over a plant… and instead of water pouring out, it just stays in a ball, wobbling around in the air! That’s because in space, there’s almost no gravity. And with no gravity, water…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child How do you water a plant where there’s no up, no down, and no gravity to help you? Imagine an astronaut tipping a watering can, only for the water to float inside as a weightless blob, refusing to pour. In microgravity, even the simplest task becomes a physics…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child Imagine a world where robots designed to save lives can fix themselves when they break.What if your plaster could check that you are healing and give you medicine when you need it? Picture astronauts floating high above Earth, safe because their spacesuit seals any tears in seconds.This could…
Toggle Switch Select Reading Level Adult Child What if your clothing could sense your needs, adapt in real time, and even heal itself? From gloves that can translate sign language to spacesuits that seal their own tears, smart fabrics are not just wearable, they’re revolutionary. These materials are weaving intelligence into the very threads of…
