Curing mental illness completely. That’s the next phase of the psychedelics journey, in which Canada is taking its first few, cautious steps.
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Dr. Lucy Gilbert
Named one of this year’s Top 25 Women of Influence, Dr. Lucy Gilbert wants to revolutionize women’s health – and there is a good chance she will.
Read More »Suitcase lab enables rapid, portable SARS-CoV-2 testing
PCR testing for SARS-CoV2 and rapid lab results are coming to Africa.
Read More »Detecting single molecules and diagnosing diseases with tiny antennas
Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich developed molecular antennas that couple DNA probes to particles of gold or silver for greater precision and brightness.
Read More »COVID detection going to the dogs
Humankind’s best friend may very well be our champion in fighting COVID-19.
Read More »Open call for scientists who want to work in space
The European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting a new class of astronauts to travel to the International Space Station and beyond.
Read More »New facial recognition software can now identify individual bears
A research project led by University of Victoria geography postdoctoral fellow Melanie Clapham identifies individual brown bears from photographs.
Read More »Alberta creates world’s largest continuous protected boreal forest area
Alberta’s government is planning a massive expansion to the Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland. Under the plan, 143,800 hectares of land will be added to over 160,000 hectares of protected boreal forests in northeastern Alberta. Almost all of the proposed expansion overlaps with a woodland caribou habitat and a small portion of the Ronald Lake bison herd range – both mammals that …
Read More »New applied science hub opens for research at Concordia University
The Applied Science Hub will be a major nexus of transdisciplinary collaboration, where industry actors, start-ups and entrepreneurs partner with our graduate students and faculty on next-generation research.
Read More »Enormous undertaking to explore ocean health
The health of the Atlantic Ocean is the focal point of a new sweeping initiative.
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