Researchers are rightly cautious about tinkering with the mechanics of expensive pieces of equipment like a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, but for a team at the National Institutes...
Read More >>According to research published in Science earlier this year [http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6377/760.full], air pollution now ranks among top five threats to human health, a list that includes...
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Read More >>Canada’s chemical sector should be well poised to wean the country’s economy off carbon, according to the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada (CIAC).
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Read More >>It has been more than a decade since materials scientists captured headlines for their attempts to mimic Harry Potter’s celebrated invisibility cloak by creating...
Read More >>An innovative device developed at McMaster University could answer some of the key questions that have been fueling controversy amongst radiologists about the safety of some...
Read More >>Canada is quietly marking a scientific and technological milestone this spring with the final shutdown of the National Research Universal (NRU)...
Read More >>The images from villages in Africa or Asia resemble a 21st-century Dickensian nightmare: open air cottage industries, ostensibly dedicated to the virtuous purpose of recycling, rely on harsh combinations
Read More >>A multinational speciality chemical firm’s purchase of a small University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) spin-off enterprise represents a major step forward in the business...
Read More >>The federal government has put out a call for researchers to work on a major problem in additive manufacturing...
Read More >>While anyone who owns a refrigerator or freezer pays close attention to what these appliances can do to your electricity bill, people using this same sort of equipment in a laboratory may not share that awareness. In that case the electricity ...
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