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New Canadian law improves habitat protections and adds Indigenous consultation
All fish are created equal, or at least treated equally under Canada’s new fisheries law that came into effect last summer. Under the updated law, fish…
Which Evolves Faster, Culture or Biology?
New study presents new way to observe rate at which culture changes. Modern human culture seems to evolve at a dizzying rate. Changes in the media…
CMAJ drops paywall
Starting today, all new Canadian Medical Association Journal content is now freely available online, with older material becoming available on March 1, 2020. Previously, CMAJ research…
How hospitals can protect themselves from cyber attack
Hospitals and healthcare systems have become a major target for hackers. The recent announcement that LifeLabs, Canada’s largest medical testing company, paid a ransom to retrieve…
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future
After years of writing about scientific papers, I’m actually a co-author on one – about the future of the scientific paper. Consider for a moment the…
To Conserve Species, Traditional Local Knowledge and Science Can Complement Each Other
Estimates of animal populations made by local residents and field scientists are similar. Thais Morcatty had a problem. The ecologist at the Mamiraua Institute in Brazil…