It took a decade and an international team of researchers, including University of Ottawa isotope geochemist Clément Bataille, to figure out how these insects found their way to an unlikely spot.
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Read More >>Harmful pollutants found in oil spills, burning coal and forest fire smoke have been detected in orcas in British Columbia waters, including the in-utero transfer of the chemicals from mother to fetus.
Read More >>Permeable pavements show promise for adsorbing car tire particles and their associated chemicals, and could be more widely used to keep these contaminants from harming coho salmon.
Read More >>Helen Tran, a chemist specializing in developing new materials for next-generation electronics, and Lucas Caire da Silva, a chemist working on bioinspired cell-like systems in multicompartment microreactors and adaptive colloidal systems are the winners of 2024’s CNC-IUPAC travel awards.
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Read More >>Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a filter that traps virtually all micro and nano plastics from water using bark and sawdust.
Read More >>At the levels surveyed, aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.
Read More >>Biomolecules from snails could one day be harnessed to fight a fungus that kills tens of thousands of people a year.
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