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The different functions of white, brown and beige fat might yield new targets in the fight against obesity and metabolic disease. When you think of fat…

At sports venues designed to maximize crowd atmosphere, beware of hearing loss. The roar of the crowd is a major part of the excitement of attending…

“If you come up with a hypothesis, what’s your next job? Not to prove it. To try and disprove it.” Read more on Science.ca.

Canadian physicians should be wary of “prescribing” medical marijuana under new regulations that come into effect on Apr. 1, 2014, says the president of the Canadian Medical…

Broadening of rootworm resistance to toxins highlights the importance of crop rotation. Even with biotech crops, farmers still need to make use of age-old practices such…

Researchers may have been focusing on the wrong gene. Scientists studying what they thought was a ‘fat gene’ seem to have been looking in the wrong…