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 “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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
