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Stopping the rot
How a natural compound called hexanal is helping prevent India’s lucrative fruit crops from spoiling. India is the world’s second-largest producer of tropical fruit and vegetables,…
Political expatriate
US ‘national drama’ drives theoretical chemist to move to Canada. Theoretical chemist Alán Aspuru-Guzik was among many US citizens who talked of moving to Canada after…
CMA position against separate regulations for medical cannabis draws ire and insults
A bad-tempered exchange at a medical-cannabis conference has highlighted a strong disagreement between the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and some of its members on how medical…
Canada’s innovation gap remains, new report finds
Investment in R&D as a share of GDP has steadily declined since 2001, mainly due to low business R&D expenditures, says expert panel. Canada has maintained…
Can We Hold Back the Glaciers?
Massive geoengineering projects to hold back glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica could slow sea level rise. A major threat from climate change is rising sea levels,…
Researchers gear up for cannabis legalization
The community is eager to track the wide-ranging social, economic and health impacts of this historic shift in public policy. Sometime later this year, if all…