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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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 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…
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…
