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Backyard Hockey A Bellwether For Climate Change
Volunteers track shifts in temperature with their homemade rinks. Outdoor hockey games on suburban backyard rinks are an iconic part of the culture in Canada. Wayne…
Canadian government accused of destroying environmental archives
Researchers fear that valuable documents will disappear as libraries close and merge. Scientists in Canada are up in arms over the recent closure of more than…
New Brunswick drug plan hopes to avoid pitfalls of other provinces
New Brunswick waited a long time for a prescription drug plan but it may now have the best one in Canada, according to Steve Morgan, who…
What can ‘frugal innovation’ do for development?
Last summer, Jessica VanderGiessen did something unusual. The bioengineering student from Santa Clara University in California, United States, spent two days travelling the rough dirt roads…
Why fruitflies know their beer
Competing neuronal pathways help adults to choose locations with just the right amount of alcohol for their offspring to thrive. Fruitflies know exactly how much alcohol…
A Grab Bag of Surprises in General Science
Welcome to the General Science category on Science Borealis. This is the place where we put all of the blogs that defy categorization – or whose…