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Mild stress could help burn fat and lose weight. If you’re the type of person who gets anxious about going to the gym, you may be…

Lost fishing gear keeps on doing the job it was designed for long after its owners are gone. Lacuna is like most other humpback whales in…

Experiment aims to show whether forgoing patents and freeing up data can boost neuroscience research. Guy Rouleau, the director of McGill University’s Montreal Neuro logical Institute…

Rising temperatures are suppressing survival rates for young fish. Climate change is making fish die young. Over the past six decades, the proportion of fish that…

Appetizing scents can override alarm signals in honeybees. As an amateur beekeeper, I’m resigned to getting more than my fair share of painful stings when harvesting…

Physicians are calling for Canada’s chief medical officers of health to be given greater independence from provincial governments following the recent firing of New Brunswick’s medical…