Anecdotes about roommates who change their usual voice, vocabulary and even grammar structure when on the phone with their parents. Social media threads discussing whether it is normal to unconsciously mimic the dialect or accent of the person you are talking to.
“We tried to calm him in every possible way, but he cried and shouted all night”, desperately declared the Coopers about their three-year-old suffering from severe atopic dermatitis. Stories like this are more common than you think in paediatric and dermatologic wards.
Doctors often remind us how important it is to complete prescribed antibiotic treatments. But how many of us ever consider that not following these instructions may mean that, in the future, surgeries will become impossible?
Ada, a curious seven-year-old, looks outside the window. It is a relatively humid day in Mansa, a city in northern Zambia, but it appears as though it isn’t going to rain for a couple of hours. Ignorant of the threat lurking around her, Ada happily leaves her house excited to play. Just as she reaches her friends, she suddenly slap
Most people associate virtual reality (VR) with videogames that offer an immersive experience. Raise a hand, and your avatar will raise its hand; turn your head, and your avatar will see a different part of the virtual room.
We all know the discomfort of having a wound after a fall: the throbbing pain when our skin is first injured, the care we must take to keep it covered and disinfected, the itchiness while it heals. But wounds can form for reasons other than accidental injury and remain open for much longer than the typical couple of weeks
It is estimated that every 2.6 seconds, a new chemical substance is isolated or synthesized, adding to nearly 200 million identified chemical substances in the world. While many of these are essential for society and not harmful to the environment, one effect of this proliferation of chemicals in our everyday lives has been the increase of polluted environments with multiple contaminants.
If you venture into the woods in Southern Finland, around the Hanko area, you’ll find groups of mounds with hundreds of ants dwelling on top that will spit acid at you when provoked.
You may not realise it, but many of the medicines sold in pharmacies are either directly sourced from nature or have an underlying operating principle drawn from a natural process. Widely used pain relievers paracetamol and aspirin? Originally derived from coal tar and willow bark, respectively.
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