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Vaccine Lottos Don’t Work, and Other New COVID Findings
Instruments are safer than singing, vaccine lotteries don’t work, and…
Life Expectancy Dove in the US Compared to Other Rich Countries. And More Virus Science
A potential cause of long covid, tree pollen can worsen…
Oil Spills’ Overlooked Victims: Water Insects
New research shows how oil spills and their cleanup harm…
Birthday Parties Accelerated the Spread of COVID-19. And More Science Journal News
Birthday parties spread COVID-19, anti-science tweets signal outbreaks, and blame…
Who Breaks Pandemic Rules Most? Bored Conservatives. And More Science News
Mixing vaccines works, bored conservatives break the rules, and vaccines…
Attacks on American Agents Leave Baffling Battle Scars
The piercing sound was so loud that night it awoke…
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 (16)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (16)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Live Science (6)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (33)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (107)
- 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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