A more sustainable way to refine metals

Published: 7 June 2017

A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents. The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could...

Nuclear pasta, the hardest known substance in the universe

Published: 18 September 2018

A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe....

Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation

Published: 20 August 2018

Deforestation is suspected to have contributed to the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization more than 1,000 years ago. A new study shows that the forest-clearing also decimated carbon...

“Citizen Science” field observations yield updated predicted distributions for rare species

Published: 8 August 2018

Online “citizen science” data initiatives may be able to help map the distribution of rare species in the wild, according to a study published August 8 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Yifu...

Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s ancient biosphere

Published: 18 July 2018

A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4 billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the...

Chirality switching in biomineral structures

Published: 1 August 2018

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or counterclockwise using only either the left-handed or...

Products derived from plants offer potential as dual-targeting agents for experimental cerebral malaria

Published: 20 February 2018

Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat...

THE CONVERSATION | Canada’s unsung female heroes of life sciences

Published: 12 February 2018

"Largely unknown by Canada’s decision-makers in government, industry and even the general public, their work is unheralded by ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Their relative obscurity in Canada, then and...

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