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In British Columbia and Washington, legislators are simultaneously weighing whether to allow this controversial farming practice to persist. This year could see the end of open-net-pen…

Invasive zebra and quagga mussels are firmly established in the Great Lakes, and efforts to control them have proved mostly fruitless. But environmental managers still want…

Many products, like leather gloves or sandals, spend a lot of time in close contact with our skin – and some, like surgical implants, are even…

When the COVID-19 pandemic started Khashayar Ghandi, a materials chemist at the University of Guelph, had already been experimenting with using microwaves to kill bacteria and…

How COVID-19 has transformed the way we publish and report on scientific research. Peer review, despite its flaws, is one of the most important pillars of…

The unit will instead mimic Finnish and Israeli agencies. But some researchers worry Canada might be too big and regionalized for the scheme to succeed. The…