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 >>The old adage, “The job’s not finished ‘til the paperwork’s done,” is turned on its head when it comes to a Health Canada Drug Establishment License (DEL), where no job...
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 >>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 >>Prehistoric peoples used naturally occurring glass to make some of the first cutting tools; modern humans began making this hard material at least 5,000 years ago.
Read More >>As we place ever-greater demands on the processing ability of electronic components, researchers have been seeking a semiconducting material that would improve on silicon’s performance...
Read More >>The behaviour of aerosols in the atmosphere remains largely unaccounted for in climate modelling — with good reason. This complex atmospheric component is exceedingly difficult to...
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...
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