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Some banned pesticides have almost disappeared from the air
Two recently banned pesticides have all but vanished from the atmosphere around the Great Lakes, but others phased out decades…
Canadian PhD students and postgrads plan mass walkout over low pay
Academics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsored fellowships and scholarships, which haven’t changed for decades. Graduate students and postdoctoral…
Slippery coating could help reduce microplastic shedding from clothes
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a way to help reduce one of the biggest sources of the…
Catching up on open access
A decade ago, Canada was at the forefront of open access publishing. Now critics say those policies are due for…
Some banned pesticides fade from Great Lakes air, while others persist
Two recently banned pesticides have all but disappeared from the atmosphere around the Great Lakes, while others phased out decades…
Researchers decry a lack of clarity under national security risk assessments
Concern rises about potential research chill as new rules are extended across federal research-funding agencies. A pilot project by the…
Publications
- Aperio (1)
- Arctic Deeply (3)
- Audubon Magazine (1)
- BMJ (3)
- Canadian Geographic (14)
- Canadian Medical Association Journal (61)
- Canadian Science Writers' Association (1)
- Chemistry World (11)
- CICNews (12)
- Ensia (1)
- FACETS (1)
- Great Lakes Now (13)
- Hakai (52)
- Inside Science (52)
- Ivy Asks (4)
- Materials Today (6)
- Medscape (16)
- Motherboard (2)
- Nature (94)
- Nature Biotechnology (5)
- Nature Index (5)
- Nature Medicine (4)
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (1)
- New Scientist (49)
- Research Canada (2)
- Research Fortnight (6)
- SciDev.Net (5)
- Science (15)
- Science Borealis (2)
- Science.ca (1)
- Scientific American (1)
- The Lancet (19)
- The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (1)
- The Lancet Rheumatology (4)
- The Narwhal (2)
- The Pharmaceutical Journal (6)
- The Tyee (83)
- University Affairs (26)
- Water Canada (1)
- WebMD (1)
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