Pollution kills, just as surely as wars, accidents, or terrorism. There are places where the air is so polluted that the sun never shines and people are wearing masks. There are also places where the sun still shines...
Read More >>As an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta, he’s well-liked by his students (he has a 4.9 out of 5.0 on a popular professor rating site)...
Read More >>Q & A with James McLellan. When he graduated with an undergraduate engineering degree from Queen’s University and a Master’s in engineering from the University of Waterloo...
Read More >>It is always interesting to speculate on the origin of a folkloric tale, especially one that is as widespread as that of the blood sucking creature of the night known as the vampire.
Read More >>The economic crisis in 2008 undoubtedly had a negative effect on business innovation and research and development at a global scale. Canada was no exception and a tell-tale sign of the impact was a dramatic decrease in patent...
Read More >>Canada and the world currently face two immense challenges. The first is to reign in our greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to minimize climate change. The second is to develop materials and processes that are sustainable as well as safe...
Read More >>Samantha Smith of the University of Toronto is devising new catalysts and ligands to enhance the creation of chemicals in industry and the pharmaceutical sector. Samantha Smith sees many similarities between an architect who designs buildings and a chemist who undertakes molecular architecture. Smith, who is nearing the end of her PhD studies in organometallic...
Read More >>Divide some laboratory rabbits into three groups. Feed one group normal rabbit chow, the second group a high-cholesterol diet and the third a high-cholesterol diet supplemented with 0.2 percent curcumin. After eight weeks take blood samples, sacrifice the bunnies and examine their aortas for atherosclerotic deposits. That’s a typical animal experiment to test the potential...
Read More >>College and university professors need to collaborate with high school teachers to better prepare students for post-secondary education. First off, let me say how absolutely fabulous it was to receive the 2017 Beaumier Award for High School/CEGEP Chemistry Teachers. It is a huge honour that will stop me from slacking off any time soon. To...
Read More >>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 >>At the Newfoundland and Labrador Boreal Ecosystem Latitudinal Transect (NL-BELT) more than two dozen scientists and graduate students...
Read More >>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. There is another issue: fast-food packaging. The hamburger is wrapped in some form of paper, fries come in a cardboard container and pizza is delivered...
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