Particulate matter holds special interest for atmospheric chemist Graydon Snider, who is not only a Dalhousie University postdoctoral fellow but a competitive long-distance runner. Last summer, Dalhousie University’s Graydon Snider...
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Read More >>TIME, usually a reliable source of information, got this story wrong. “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that products labeled ‘100% Parmesan’ might actually contain cheese substitutes like wood...
Read More >>Ron Freedman contemplates reform of the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program, which hands out $4 billion in tax credits annually to companies undertaking R&D. In the research and development...
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Read More >>A rotten apple spoils the whole barrel. That’s not just an old adage, it’s a scientific fact. And it all has to do with ethylene, a gas produced internally by...
Read More >>It is curious to think that we can thank 30 million-year-old unicellular algae-like creatures called diatoms for the appealing appearance of such modern consumer goods as cooking oil, liquid soap,...
Read More >>University of British Columbia Okanagan undergraduate Jeff Kerkovius wants to create molecules that change the world. Jeff Kerkovius of Kelowna, BC had an especially precocious predilection for chemistry. At age eight he...
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