Les moules, expertes en liaisons de matériaux
À quoi ressembleront les futures interfaces entre neurones et circuits électroniques ? Pour une équipe de l’Université McGill, la réponse viendra peut-être d’une moule !
Read More >>BC’s phosphate-rich Last Chance Lake provides hints about Earth life’s first chance
University of Washington biogeochemists get closer to solving the “phosphate problem” – that life needs a lot of it, but it’s typically rare.
Read More >>PAHs detected in orcas, including in utero transfer from mother to fetus
Harmful pollutants found in oil spills, burning coal and forest fire smoke have been detected in orcas in British Columbia waters, including the in-utero transfer of the chemicals from mother to fetus.
Read More >>Permeable pavements could protect fish by trapping car tire chemicals
Permeable pavements show promise for adsorbing car tire particles and their associated chemicals, and could be more widely used to keep these contaminants from harming coho salmon.
Read More >>Creating a new kind of quasicrystal by accident
A funny thing happened when Sergio de la Barrera and his colleagues started playing around with sheets of graphene – they created a new type of “quasicrystal” with fascinating properties that could help scientists explore exotic kinds of physics.
Read More >>Harnessing soil microbes to uncover diamond deposits
Mining is an expensive business, which is why you want as much information as possible about potential mineral deposits before you start drilling.
Read More >>La bave du ver de velours, fibre de l’avenir?
Une équipe de l’Université McGill et de l’Université du Québec à Montréal révèle que la bave d’un ver tropical cache une chimie unique dans le monde animal.
Read More >>Using wood dust and tannic acid to trap microplastics
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a filter that traps virtually all micro and nano plastics from water using bark and sawdust.
Read More >>Making perovskite solar cells more durable
Over the past decade, however, a promising new class of photovoltaic material has come to the fore – perovskite crystals made of a combination of organic and inorganic materials, such as lead-halide.
Read More >>Quels risques se cachent dans la fumée des feux de forêt ?
Au Canada, l’été 2023 a été marqué par la fumée des feux de forêt. Mais au-delà des avertissements sur la qualité de l’air, beaucoup de questions sur la nature même de cette fumée restent sans réponse. Des chercheurs tentent de dissiper ce brouillard.
Read More >>Great Lakes microplastics concentrations surpass safe levels for fish
At the levels surveyed, aquatic wildlife are at risk of ingesting enough microplastics to fill their guts, diluting their regular food and its nutritional value.
Read More >>Bitumen weathering studied under natural conditions – spilled into a lake
In 2018, scientists deliberately poured dilbit into a freshwater lake, and now their findings – which they hope will inform future clean up efforts – are starting to come out.
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