A half-century ago, Doug Goff grew up in a home in Truro, NS where the freezer usually held seven or eight flavours of ice cream and a sleeve of cones was nearby. Today, Goff is known as Dr. Freeze around the world for his pioneering research into making consistently better ice cream.
Read More >>Vancouver delivered mountain ranges, sunshine and ocean breezes as the picturesque complement to the 97th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition...
Read More >>Recipients from the field of chemistry of the Government of Canada’s biannual Canada Research Chair program — created to attract some of the world’s most accomplished scholars —include the following:
Read More >>It is a dream that fell short of its early optimism and hype: use abundant hydrogen to supply the planet’s energy needs to eliminate the global dependence on fossil fuels...
Read More >>The paradoxical observation “less is more” applies perfectly to carbon, for if you think coal and diamonds are valuable, just wait to get your hands on a little bit of...
Read More >>Bruce Peachey, FCIC, and Christopher Yip were recognized as Honorary Fellows for exceptional contributions to engineering at the Engineering Institute of Canada’s (EIC) CCTC2015 conference and banquet held May 26 in Mo
Read More >>Canadian Chemical News (ACCN) contributor Anita Lahey of Toronto is this year’s winner of Engineers Canada Award of Journalism Excellence in Engineering. The award was presented May 24 in Saint...
Read More >>Canadian Society of Chemistry’s (CSC) certificates to undergraduate chemistry students were presented May 6 at Kuwait University in Kuwait City. The CSC awards certificates to students graduating from accredited academic...
Read More >>While the industrialized countries of the world eagerly seek ways to cut back on their energy consumption, developing nations face a different challenge — ramping up their energy output as...
Read More >>Nomenclature101.com for Francophone students is an online tool developed at the University of Ottawa to fill in a significant learning gap caused by an inability to interpret and use the language of organic chemistry. Students should be able to name and draw simple molecules,
Read More >>The legend of Harry Potter apparated in real life into the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment (WSCE) in Huntsville, Ont. on April 29-30. The event was the first annual Harry Potter - Science and Magic! outreach program, organized by Brock..
Read More >>The stubborn polymer assortment of aromatic alcohols known as lignin continues to be a key factor limiting the efficiency of pulp and paper production. Although it gives physical strength to...
Read More >>In one of many assassination attempts on Grigori Rasputin, the early 20th century Russian mystic and political adviser to the House of Romanov, sweet pastries were laced with cyanide, which he nevertheless survived eating.
Read More >>As Canadian universities and hospitals continue to outfit themselves with the technology to work with radioisotopes for research or medical activities, there will be an ongoing demand for the expertise to carry out this work.
Read More >>Queen’s University chemistry professor Cathleen Crudden admits that neither she nor her Department of Chemistry colleague Hugh Horton had any commercial applications in mind when they began their work into the reaction of carbon-based ligands called ca
Read More >>On June 1 at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Vancouver, the provincial chemistry associations of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia created a new national...
Read More >>Back in the 1950s, Dow Chemical promoted its glycols by highlighting the humectant and softening effect in cigarettes. Although cigarette advertising is anathema in society today, glycols and the role...
Read More >>The world has changed rapidly and many constants are being questioned, even the value of post-secondary education. The assertion that jobs and skills are of paramount importance and that universities...
Read More >>I recently wrote how the Supreme Court of the United States had ruled that isolated DNA was not a patentable invention. The Court ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment...
Read More >>“Hey, aren’t you somebody?” the teenager queried as I got into the elevator. While I was pondering an appropriate answer to this deeply philosophical question, his crony spilled the beans,...
Read More >>On May 11, the faculties of Science and Applied Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, British Columbia joined with the Vancouver Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada to celebrate a day of science and astronomy at Science...
Read More >>Using a technique that University of Alberta mechanical engineering professor Dan Sameoto compares to a panini sandwich press, pellets of thermoplastic elastomers are squashed onto a substrate to form an innovative adhesive that mimics the sticky feet
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