Then and Now
HISTORY
B A. Shawinigan Ltd. may have taken creative liberties with our nation’s iconic beaver, depicting it as a dual-toned animal with a penchant for hard hats, but it was still...
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EDUCATION
Laboratory experiments can be stressful at the best of times. However, when a lab exam consists of three...
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HISTORY
It is curious to think that we can thank 30 million-year-old unicellular algae-like creatures called diatoms for the appealing appearance of such modern consumer goods as cooking oil, liquid soap,...
Read More >>The King of Synthesis
CLASS DISTINCTION
University of British Columbia Okanagan undergraduate Jeff Kerkovius wants to create molecules that change the world. Jeff Kerkovius of Kelowna, BC had an especially precocious predilection for chemistry. At age eight he...
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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Is hockey the greatest sport on earth? Few Canadians would disagree. In terms of speed and intensity, hockey is unmatched by any other game. It is also the consummate team sport. A win is impossible unless every player works together, each athlete giving — as the cliché goes — 110 percent.
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ENERGY
It was a summer of extremes, from fires blackening Western Canadian forests to a shrivelling drought in California to heat waves that baked Pakistan and India. Meteorologists pointed the finger...
Read More >>The Dawning of 3D Materials
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
When one thinks of potential materials for use in 3D printing, Nutella — the hazelnut and cocoa spread that is smeared on morning toast...
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REGULATIONS
March came in like a lion for Port Metro Vancouver when a shipping container full of trichloroisocyanuric acid imported from China exploded, creating a massive chemical fire with toxic brown-grey...
Read More >>Quiet vigilance
DEFENCE SCIENCE
On Jan. 24, smoke rose into the air on the outskirts of Mosul, a large rebel-held city 400 kilometres north of Iraq’s capital of Baghdad. The black plume marked a successful air strike for the United States, which has carried out attacks since...
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Vancouver has an itch that just won’t go away. Luckily, Darin Craig, a service manager with Local Pest Control...
Read More >>Something fishy with nanotechnology?
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanotech: Think big by thinking small. That could be nanotechnology’s tagline, if indeed this hot area of science needed a cool slogan — which it doesn’t. That’s because nanotech is...
Read More >>Raman spectroscopy provides high-tech clues to Group of Seven’s Lawren Harris art mystery
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Fourteen years ago, David Robertson of Delta, British Columbia was holidaying in Ontario when he stopped at a small antique shop in the community of Bala, two hours north of Toronto in cottage country. An unsigned 1912 oil painting caught his attention.
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