Modelling the potential for carbon dioxide storage in undersea basalt formations, a Canadian team estimates that this technology, if scaled up, could remove carbon dioxide on a gigaton-per-year scale.
Read More >>Copper is a metal with antimicrobial properties known for centuries but is undergoing a renaissance of scientific interest in medicine. Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver is now keeping its many high touch surfaces clean with the help of this metal.
Read More >>Sought after for their ability to repel water, grease, and oil, PFAS are a class of more than 4700 synthetic compounds used since the 1950s. One application poorly studied in North America is PFAS in cosmetics. A new study now shows just how much they contain.
Read More >>An international collaboration used machine-learning to create an open-access virtual catalogue of some 300,000 organic compounds, opening doors for a range of future applications from materials to drugs. The project,...
Read More >>Researchers at Memorial University in Newfoundland have demonstrated proof of concept for a polyurethane produced using fish heads, bones, skin and guts —parts usually discarded from fisheries and aquaculture industries.
Read More >>It’s January 2018 in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and the temperature is -50C even before the wind chill. But cold is not the only danger....
Read More >>Was the structure of benzene really illuminated by a chemist’s dream of a snake devouring its own tail? Historians of science are skeptical of this persistent chemistry legend. But there...
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