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Tiny fruit fly hairs inspire simplified spectrometers

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
BY: Tim Lougheed

Legend has it that Isaac Newton’s insight into the natural world was inspired by an apple; Arindam Phani has taken his own inspiration from the insects that might have sought out that fruit.

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Channeling Star Trek with a medicinal shot to the arm

PHARMACEUTICALS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Among the many innovations that the original Star Trek series offered to illustrate how much more comfortable life in the future could be, perhaps none was more intimate than the delivery of medicine into a patient’s body. In place of today’s...

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Semiconducting nanotubes from electron-poor polymers

FUNDAMENTALS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Since the features of carbon nanotubes were first identified more than 25 years ago, high expectations have accompanied these single-walled structures. They offer exceptional tensile strength, useful optical properties...

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Novel switch architecture takes tiny temperatures

BIOCHEMISTRY
BY: Tim Lougheed

As researchers tease apart the intricate biochemical operations within a cell, they need an entirely new class of tools to take some fundamental measurements. But at scales of only a few nanometres, measuring even elementary...

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Curtailing inefficient semiconductor precursors

MATERIALS SCIENCE
BY: Tim Lougheed

Atomic layer deposition (ALD), one of the semiconductor industry’s workhorse technologies, is responsible for creating ultra-thin films of exotic materials that allow so many of our appliances to work their electronic magic.

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Chitin proves there’s more to love about shellfish

POLYMERS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Seafood lovers around the world savour the tender meat of crustaceans but want nothing to do with their exoskeleton packaging, which is whisked from the table in short order. All those shells amount to a lot of waste; diners might consume three quarters of the caught...

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Batteries bolstered by taking their B2 vitamins

POLYMERS
BY: Tim Lougheed

Amid mounting expectations that we will be using ever more sophisticated batteries to power everything from portable electronics to our vehicles and homes, scientists are taking a fresh look at...

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Medical breakthrough comes in the blink of an eye

HEALTH
BY: Tim Lougheed

Innovative chemical packaging provides a more efficient way of delivering medicine into the eye.

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Self-assembling macrocyclic molecules with chalcogens

FUNDAMENTALS
BY: Tim Lougheed

McMaster researchers have found a way to get complex cyclical molecules to assemble themselves.

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New algorithms designed to break the glass ceiling

MATERIALS SCIENCE
BY: Tim Lougheed

The physics and chemistry of glass continue to challenge researchers, leading to a variety of different approaches.

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ARTMS targets molybdenum and potential customers

RADIOCHEMISTRY
BY: Tim Lougheed

Canadian researchers who have been collaborating since 2010 on an alternative approach to the production of medical radioisotopes are poised to launch a commercial venture to market their innovation globally....

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Siberian MOFs show nature still precedes nurture

GEOCHEMISTRY
BY: Tim Lougheed

When it comes to intricate molecular structures, researchers typically start by discovering nature’s handiwork, then build on it with their own creations. In a rare reversal of this order of...

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