Britain has the least happy teenagers in Europe, at least that’s what a new survey by The Children’s Society tells us. Why might this be? The charity’s chief executive, Mark Russell, believes he knows the reason. It’s down to “the increase in child poverty”, he says. There are two big problems with this explanation. The …
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“While other kids ate candy for breakfast, we had to have cereal, egg and toast. When others had a Pepsi or a Twinkie for lunch, we had to eat sandwiches. And you can guess, our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from what other kids had, too. Mother insisted on knowing where we …
Information collected by a University of Ottawa team using data collected over a 115 year period and covering 66 bumblebee species, show that bumblebees are in drastic decline across Western Europe and North America, owing to higher and more extreme variations in temperature. The likelihood of the bee population surviving has declined by 30% in …
Not exactly on the forefront of our minds at the moment, but we may be closer to defeating Covid 19’s less deadly cousin – the common cold. A vaccine that protects against one of the most common cold viruses could be available as soon as 2024, after it has proved safe and effective in clinical trials. …
One in three children around the world have enough lead in their blood to endanger their long-term health, scientists have found. The Unicef-published report, based on blood tests performed on hundreds of thousands of children worldwide, estimates that around 800 million under-19s have at least five micrograms of lead in their blood per decilitre – …
