Researchers regularly grapple with the necessary evil of overcapacity. Their work is not possible without specialized and often very expensive pieces of equipment: sophisticated microscopes, spectrometers, centrifuges and other high-end infrastructure that make a lab capable of...
Read More >>Less than a week after being sworn in as prime minister last November, Justin Trudeau declared that he was “disappointed” when the US State Department and President Barack Obama officially rejected the Keystone XL pipeline. University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe was...
Read More >>Just as bad ingredients can make for an unsatisfying and perhaps downright unpleasant meal, bad chemical probes can lead to incorrect or misleading scientific outcomes. University of Toronto biochemist Aled Edwards is a staunch advocate of this perspective,...
Read More >>“Protons do a lot,” says Mark Daymond, pointing to a container of hydrogen the size of a coffee thermos that will feed protons into an accelerator the size of a school bus. These protons, Daymond says, will do even more by making it possible...
Read More >>However much it sounds like science fiction, we can envision the day when clinicians will be able to synthesize replacements for almost any part of our bodies using hardware little more complex than an ink jet printer. Already this technology can be used to...
Read More >>Mopping up a diesel fuel spill is never easy, especially at the world’s most northerly habitation on Ellesmere Island, where spring, summer and fall are over in about eight weeks and the ground remains frozen the rest of the year. Nevertheless, members...
Read More >>Paul Chirak, a Princeton University researcher specializing in catalysts for new methods of chemical synthesis, has turned to GreenCentre Canada for help in commercializing products he has been developing. GreenCentre, an organization based in Kingston, Ont., ...
Read More >>The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) has successfully turned the Process Safety Management Standard (PSM) it developed three years ago into the Canadian Standards Association’s first national standard.
Read More >>Electronic design is butting up against the physical limits of manipulating charges within a semiconductor, which means circuitry is approaching the effective limit of how small and densely...
Read More >>Although woolly mammoths have not walked the Earth for several thousand years, they played a crucial role in the balance of the world’s prehistoric ecosystem and have become...
Read More >>When papers in Nature Chemical Biology and PLOS ONE released this spring revealed an engineered form of yeast that could be used to make morphine as easily as home brewers turn out batches...
Read More >>The search for new superconducting materials has waxed and waned over the past couple of decades as researchers have struggled to find...
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