Health

Biomarker found to help predict severity of Covid-19

An international team of scientists has identified a new biomarker that could predict the severity of coronavirus disease from nasopharyngeal swab. Biology Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart...

5 February 2022 · 4 min read

What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’
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What Kids Lose When They Don’t Read Books Like ‘Maus’

Last month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel “Maus” from the district’s eighth grade curriculum on the Holocaust. In the book, American cartoonist...

5 February 2022 · 10 min read

Environment

Octopuses and squid came from space

Scientists have published an article in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, entitled "The Cause of the Cambrian Explosion - Earth or Space?" in which the origin of...

4 February 2022 · 3 min read

WHAT BOOK would popular novelist Diane Chamberlain take to a desert island? 
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Books

WHAT BOOK would popular novelist Diane Chamberlain take to a desert island? 

. . . are you reading now? I’m lucky to belong to a wonderful neighbourhood book club, which is diverse in age and background. Right now we are reading The...

3 February 2022 · 3 min read

Science&Technology

Bacteria will produce rocket fuel for space missions

A group of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a concept that bacteria will produce rocket fuel and liquid oxygen from atmospheric CO2 to power a spacecraft...

3 February 2022 · 2 min read

TOON Books Acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers
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TOON Books Acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers

TOON Books, founded by Francoise Mouly in 2008, has found a new home: The publisher was acquired by Astra Books for Young Readers (ABFYR), and is now that ABFYR's seventh...

3 February 2022 · 3 min read

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On the effects of vitamin D

Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium, which improves bone strength Studies over the years have shown that vitamin D can reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and cancer....

2 February 2022 · 4 min read

District removes 8 books as inappropriate
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District removes 8 books as inappropriate

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Students will no longer find several books in the libraries and media centers of Forsyth County Schools. The superintendent of schools says the district removed eight...

1 February 2022 · 2 min read