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What Happens When Oil Sands Pipelines Spill?
The solution flowing through the Keystone pipeline isn’t just crude…
Family doctors call for guaranteed access to EMR data for research and quality improvement
To support quality improvement and research, family physicians and medical…
Study by proponent of neck vein-widening therapy for MS finds treatment ineffective
The controversial “liberation therapy,” which aims to treat Multiple Sclerosis…
The microscope makers
A small community of scientists has taken a do-it-yourself approach…
Obsession with novelty sidelines deeper learning
Too much focus on generating new ideas in science is…
Will Passengers Ever Fly on Pilotless Planes?
The technology is progressing quickly, but the main challenge may…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- bioGraphic (1)
- Biopharma Dealmakers (1)
- BMJ (4)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- CHCO/The Courier (14)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (16)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (14)
- Hakai (54)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Live Science (4)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (31)
- 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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