Development of Vaccines
Many things have surprised us over the past year as COVID-19 has made its way around the world. One was the speed at which vaccines were developed to safeguard us against this virus. Another was that not everyone shared the…
Fighting Iron Deficiency One Bite at a Time
Imagine waking up exhausted every morning. You feel weak, irritable and find yourself breathless during even the simplest activities, like walking. These are just some of the symptoms of iron deficiency. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the…
Your Brain Hears Math Differently to Normal Speech
If you’re an artsy kind of person, it can sometimes feel like your brain just isn’t wired for stuff like math or science. You can rhapsodize for weeks about the transformative brutality of Picasso’s Guernica but the second you hear…
5 Benefits of Using a Local Community Pharmacy
Whether you’re stopping off to buy something to improve your headache or refill your medication, your pharmacy team will know you well enough to give you the right advice each and every time. But with an increasing number of people…
Everything You Need to Know About Mars
Is there life on Mars? Humans have long been intrigued by this question. In 1895, Percival Lowel erroneously documented what he thought were artificial canals running through the planet. The thought that intelligent beings might inhabit our neighboring planet captured…
Is There A Future For Cloning?
While many people believe that cloning only occurs in science fiction movies, the truth is that we have had cloning technology for a long time now. Cloning is a method that allows scientists to create precise genetic duplicates of living…
The Strangest Planets In The Universe (Part 3)
Normal planets orbit in the same direction as their star – in a plane a few degrees from the star’s equatorial plane. But it turns out that many planets tend to behave wildly, with steeply inclined orbits, orbits that extend…
The Strangest Planets In The Universe (Part 2)
Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system – they can be beautiful Earth-like environments or worlds called ‘hell planets’ because of their rough surfaces. You’ll find everything from diamond planets to frozen planets. Planets are so close to…
The Strangest Planets In The Universe (Part 1)
With an age of 13,700 million years and an extension of more than 150,000 million light-years, the Universe is absolutely everything. The more we learn about it, the more it surprises us, and the more unanswered questions seem to…
Everything You Need to Know About the Coronavirus and Its Origins
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severed acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although the exact origin of the virus is still unknown, the first…
