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How one researcher is improving air quality in the Toronto subway system
The air quality inside Toronto’s subway has always been poor,…
Researchers rejoice: the Canadian Common CV’s days are numbered
New narrative CV to be rolled out to all tri-agencies’…
Environmental Protection, with a Side of Small Business
Conservation takes cash, and philanthropic funding is notoriously fickle. To…
Rage against machine learning driven by profit
Industry research funding is vastly eclipsing academia’s spend, but healthy…
‘Fire clouds’ from super-hot wildfires are on the rise as Earth warms
Intense blazes burning in the United States and Canada are…
Cleaning water with quantum chemistry
When Diana Virgovicova was 14 she travelled to India with…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- bioGraphic (1)
- Biopharma Dealmakers (1)
- BMJ (6)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- CHCO/The Courier (17)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (16)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Live Science (8)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (33)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (108)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
- Nature Medicine (4)
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (21)
- Science Borealis (2)
- Science.ca (1)
- Scientific American (1)
- The Lancet (19)
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (1)
- The Lancet Rheumatology (4)
- The Narwhal (2)
- The Pharmaceutical Journal (6)
- The Tyee (83)
- University Affairs (28)
- Water Canada (1)
- WebMD (1)
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