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Urban lizards have gene mutations that help them adapt to city life
Anole lizards living in three cities in Puerto Rico have…
Ship Noise Kills Crabs’ Libidos
For green crabs, ship noise is like an anti–Barry White.…
Nature Outlook: Children’s Health
Most parents want to protect their children from the variety…
‘We’ve never had a technology like Crispr before’: gene-editing moves into the clinic
When Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier revealed that the bacterial…
Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away
Geese chased out of a park in Chicago returned to…
Get Ready to Share the Road with a Self-Driving Vehicle
What are the cars of the future, and what impact…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- bioGraphic (1)
- Biopharma Dealmakers (1)
- BMJ (7)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- CHCO/The Courier (19)
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- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
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- Medscape (33)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (108)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
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- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (21)
- Science Borealis (2)
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- 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)
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