Under pressure
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
In the mid-1990s, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an in-depth report on how human activity was...
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CATALYTIC CHEMISTRY
Chemistry professor Michael Organ has taken on some tough puzzles in organic chemistry and added to the roster of industrial tools for synthesizing valuable materials. Over the past decade, as...
Read More >>Food for Thought
BIOCHEMISTRY
For most people, pushing the boundaries of culinary experience might mean switching to an Italian Vermentino after years devoted to drinking...
Read More >>Reinventing the Wheel
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Daan Maijer points to the wheel mounted behind glass outside his University of British Columbia office and tells me why, exactly, it looks the way it does. All those cutouts...
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SAFETY
It was a steel plant operator’s worst nightmare — a blast furnace that could not be shut down properly. The resulting damage throughout the plant was significant, although its full...
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BIOCHEMISTRY
Blond, bubbly and blessed with an irresistible Aussie accent, Shari Forbes understands why people might not see her as someone who would spend her time scattering dead bodies around a...
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EDUCATION
Laboratory experiments can be stressful at the best of times. However, when a lab exam consists of three...
Read More >>Risky Business
PETROCHEMISTRY
In the run-up to the May 2013 provincial election in British Columbia, Premier Christy Clark announced an optimistic new economic plan. One of the major planks in her platform was...
Read More >>The Big Chill
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Is hockey the greatest sport on earth? Few Canadians would disagree. In terms of speed and intensity, hockey is unmatched by any other game. It is also the consummate team sport. A win is impossible unless every player works together, each athlete giving — as the cliché goes — 110 percent.
Read More >>Worth its salt?
NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY
Last month, David Leblanc made a kind of pilgrimage to Oak Ridge, Tenn. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a very special moment in nuclear history. From 1965 until 1969,...
Read More >>New Prescription
PHARMACEUTICALS
Strategically wedged between the many lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway and Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport at the west end of the island of Montreal, the Saint-Laurent Campus of Technoparc...
Read More >>Chemical renaissance
MATERIALS
While the prospect of warmer Arctic temperatures generally earns negative reviews from many people, one group of researchers has been welcoming a positive...
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