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Vancouver has an itch that just won’t go away. Luckily, Darin Craig, a service manager with Local Pest Control...
Read More >>Vancouver has an itch that just won’t go away. Luckily, Darin Craig, a service manager with Local Pest Control...
Read More >>More than 1,000 researchers, academics, students and industry representatives came together for the 64th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in the spectacular setting of Niagara Falls October 19-22. The theme of the conference was “Advanced Materials, Energy, and Sustainability.”
Read More >>The Industrial Chemistry Conference, presented by the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology (CSCT) and the Association of the Chemical Profession of Alberta (ACPA) debuted in Edmonton Nov. 12-14.
Read More >>The Chemical Institute of Canada wishes to extend its condolences to the families of Philip Ashbaugh of Burlington, Ont., Richard (Dick) Ford, FCIC, of Parry Sound, Ont. and Martin B. Hocking, FCIC, of Victoria.
Read More >>When one thinks of the word “nanotube,” the other word that’s likely to come to mind is “carbon.” Even a Google search reveals this bias. It’s easy to understand why....
Read More >>If any member of the periodic table could be nominated as the patron element of fun and frivolity, it would have to be helium.
Read More >>Blood clotting is essential to surviving any wound but it can work against us when modern medicine needs to operate inside the body. In cases where a piece of equipment must be inserted to extract fluids or deliver medicine, blood clots can foul up the intricate parts of this technology.
Read More >>The Quebec Centre for Functional Materials (CQMF) held its 7th Annual Conference in Shawinigan, Que. this past November.
Read More >>Nanoparticle technology being developed at the University of Waterloo could come to the rescue of individuals taking cyclosporin eye drops to treat dry eye syndrome. Users — who sometimes find they must administer the medication several times a day — could ultimately wind up applying the drops just...
Read More >>A device developed by chemists at Université de Montréal promises to improve the way a powerful cancer-fighting drug is administered to patients. By using nanoparticles to generate optical effects, this new technology will make it possible to determine almost immediately how much of the drug remains in...
Read More >>IndigoKids at the Toronto Eaton Centre was the place to be Oct. 19 for a little bit of chemistry magic to celebrate National Chemistry Week. he hands-on activities, sponsored by the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), included a demonstration of fruit batteries, where galvanized nails...
Read More >>Oxidation states — describing the number of electrons an atom loses or gains when it joins [IrO4]+with other atoms in chemical compounds — have fascinated Gary Schrobilgen since his graduate school days in the 1970s, when he managed to make the first bromine VII cation, [BrF6]+. Today, as a chemistry professor...
Read More >>Canada’s SCISAT satellite, which last year marked 10 years of actively observing more than 30 different molecules in our planet’s upper and lower atmosphere, has earned a reputation for providing a unique collection of measurements that sometimes contain surprises. This reputation was reinforced this past...
Read More >>Drew Bennett, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo, is this year’s winner of the $20,000 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Chemistry.
Read More >>At 68 C, vanadium oxide (VO2) undergoes a significant change in electronic properties that has vexed physicists and chemists for more than 50 years. In 1959 it was discovered that as the material cools, it changes from a metal to a semiconductor while its atoms reorganize themselves from a tetragonal to monoclinic crystal structure.
Read More >>About 1,000 people, including many primary grade school students, flocked to Malvern Town Centre in Scarborough, Ont. Oct. 25 to explore the fun and fascinating side of chemistry...
Read More >>With social media being the dominant mode of communication in the 21st century, celebrities, Twitter sound bites and sweeping simplistic slogans have usurped the general public’s confidence in scientists. “Natural...
Read More >>World-renowned mathematician and physicist Neil Turok, director of the Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics in Waterloo, Ont., discusses Canada’ s place in the emerging quantum age and the need for scientists...
Read More >>Late in 2013, many Canadian news outlets blared a headline similar to the one reported on the CBC’s website, “Eli Lilly Files $500M NAFTA Suit Against Canada Over Drug Patents.”...
Read More >>The Second Battle of Ypres by Richard Jack was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials Fund to commemorate the first major action of Canadian troops at the Western Front during...
Read More >>Let me tell you about my day. This morning, as soon as I turned on the car radio, I was treated to an ad for the “Legendary Pure Silver Angel...
Read More >>A decade after the official launch of Canada’s first synchrotron in Saskatoon, many members of the nation’s research community might start to wonder how they ever managed without this powerful investigative resource. For his part, University of Saskatchewan biochemist Miroslaw Cygler points to the...
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