Green Skies Ahead
BIOCHEMISTRY
In one of several town-hall meetings held across the country early this year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked controversy by pointing to the need for Canada...
Read More >>Chief Science Advisor member of the Canadian Society for Chemistry
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Prime Minister Trudeau has announced Canada’s Chief Science Advisor, Mona Nemer, at a ceremony at the House of Commons. Nemer is a long-time member of the Canadian Society for Chemistry and obtained her PhD in bio-organic chemistry from McGill University.
Read More >>Canada’s Chemistry Olympiad team nab silver and bronze
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
From left: Jeffrey Zhou, Karen Li, Hermish Mehta, and Raluca Petrut Canada’s secondary school chemistry whizzes brought home silver and bronze medals as well as an honourable mention at the...
Read More >>Stepping up the pace of protein design
BIOCHEMISTRY
Computer models based on molecular energy budgets have made it easier than ever to imagine the myriad ways a protein structure could be folded. Yet it has still been difficult...
Read More >>Lords of the Ring
PETROCHEMISTRY
Was the structure of benzene really illuminated by a chemist’s dream of a snake devouring its own tail? Historians of science are skeptical of this persistent chemistry legend. But there...
Read More >>Mighty enzymes
BIOCHEMISTRY
David Zechel of Queen’s University. Is it possible for chemists to make the perfect molecule? David Zechel, associate professor at Queen’s University Department of Chemistry in Kingston, Ont., says there...
Read More >>The life-saving potential of the deadly carrot
PHARMACEUTICALS
Apoisonous plant’s value is in the eye of the beholder and Thapsia garganica has become highly prized by cancer specialists. In the wake of a recently published development by investigators...
Read More >>Putting proof back in the engineering curriculum
EDUCATION
Chemical engineers rely on a wide range of numerical methods to make sense of an otherwise messy physical world. But when these methods are taught to students, they are often presented in an already simplified format, without formal proofs and perhaps even embedded in the complex code of modelling software.
Read More >>Pilot plant to recharge battery manufacture
NANOMATERIALS
Over the past two decades we have become surrounded by lithium battery technology, some of it almost invisible but nevertheless essential to providing portable power storage that we now take for granted. But turning raw lithium into an appropriate medium for retaining and transferring an electrical charge is a complicated process.
Read More >>CSC celebrates 100 years of chemistry in Toronto
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Canada’s premiere chemistry event, the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, celebrated 100 years this past May in Toronto, attracting 3,500 attendees from more than 50 countries and chemical society representatives from the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and China. Nobel laureate John Polanyi, HFCIC, of the University of Toronto...
Read More >>Driven Snow
CLASS DISTINCTION
At the Newfoundland and Labrador Boreal Ecosystem Latitudinal Transect (NL-BELT) more than two dozen scientists and graduate students...
Read More >>The fancy fast-food wrapping that gets a bad rap
CHEMFUSION
We feel a bit guilty biting into a hamburger, pizza or hotdog. They comfort the taste buds but not the body, with all the fat, salt, cholesterol and various additives....
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