Prions, the misfolded proteins that can wreak havoc on the brain, are slowly surrendering their secrets. First identified in the late 1980s as the culprit behind mad cow disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans), investigators have spent the past 25 years trying to determine...
Read More >>Southwestern Ontario spawned North America's petrochemical economy and now the research infrastructure that built this industry is contributing to the rise of a new generation of biochemical ventures.
Read More >>For most of human history, fresh water was wherever we could find it. Communities were set up on flood plains to take advantage of natural irrigation, along rivers that lent...
Read More >>Legend has it that Isaac Newton’s insight into the natural world was inspired by an apple; Arindam Phani has taken his own inspiration from the insects that might have sought out that fruit.
Read More >>Among the many innovations that the original Star Trek series offered to illustrate how much more comfortable life in the future could be, perhaps none was more intimate than the delivery of medicine into a patient’s body. In place of today’s...
Read More >>Since the features of carbon nanotubes were first identified more than 25 years ago, high expectations have accompanied these single-walled structures. They offer exceptional tensile strength, useful optical properties...
Read More >>As researchers tease apart the intricate biochemical operations within a cell, they need an entirely new class of tools to take some fundamental measurements. But at scales of only a few nanometres, measuring even elementary...
Read More >>Atomic layer deposition (ALD), one of the semiconductor industry’s workhorse technologies, is responsible for creating ultra-thin films of exotic materials that allow so many of our appliances to work their electronic magic.
Read More >>Seafood lovers around the world savour the tender meat of crustaceans but want nothing to do with their exoskeleton packaging, which is whisked from the table in short order. All those shells amount to a lot of waste; diners might consume three quarters of the caught...
Read More >>Watching Victor Snieckus dash around a classroom is enough to make you wish that you too...
Read More >>Some real estate agents swear by the smell of baking bread as a way of enhancing the prospects of a house on the market. The yeasty aroma apparently heads straight to our brain...
Read More >>Canadian researchers who have been collaborating since 2010 on an alternative approach to the production of medical radioisotopes are poised to launch a commercial venture to market their innovation globally....
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