As we place ever-greater demands on the processing ability of electronic components, researchers have been seeking a semiconducting material that would improve on silicon’s performance...
Read More >>The behaviour of aerosols in the atmosphere remains largely unaccounted for in climate modelling — with good reason. This complex atmospheric component is exceedingly difficult to...
Read More >>If the human body had a building code, most cancerous tumours would qualify as fast and dirty construction that no inspector would approve. Their blood supply is delivered through leaky, poorly fitting vessels and the surrounding tissue does a terrible job...
Read More >>Among the most powerful weapons in our antibiotic arsenal are aminoglycosides, which can prevent the biosynthesis of key proteins that infectious bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli need to survive. First isolated in the 1950s...
Read More >>Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment has become a cornerstone technology of medical diagnosis. But Sylvain Martel, a professor of computer engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, is taking MRI research a step further by utilizing it as an equally...
Read More >>The centuries-old Indian weaving technique known as zari wraps flattened metal wires around silk fibres to create a shimmering brocade. This traditional textile provides chemistry professor Christa Brosseau of Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia with an elegant ...
Read More >>When a group of experienced firefighters in eastern Ontario wanted to come up with a way of making their profession more environmentally friendly, they turned to Ontario’s network of organizations that help turn such ideas into marketable products.
Read More >>A cross-country collaboration between companies and researchers in British Columbia and Ontario should enable the high-tech capabilities of graphite to withstand the brutal economics of building heat exchangers. An innovative method of rolling...
Read More >>Tony SpringThorpe holds his thumb and forefinger about a centimetre apart, then offers this revealing quip about his long and distinguished career, “For more than 40 years I’ve been doing...
Read More >>Zeolites are among the most highly prized materials of the modern chemical economy and many manufacturers may have been making them without even knowing it. These microporous crystals are exceptionally versatile adsorbents that have found a wide range...
Read More >>Living cells can get a lot of chemistry done in some very tight quarters. In fact, if you take the chemical constituents of a cell and try to get them to interact outside of those confines, you will get nothing like the same level of activity.
Read More >>Wherever arsenic goes, its sinister reputation precedes it. And arsenic really gets around. While other elements may be found far more abundantly in the Earth’s crust, oceans or atmosphere, at...
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