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PCR testing for SARS-CoV2 and rapid lab results are coming to Africa.

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.

Humankind’s best friend may very well be our champion in fighting COVID-19.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is recruiting a new class of astronauts to travel to the International Space Station and beyond.

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 …

The health of the Atlantic Ocean is the focal point of a new sweeping initiative.

The Milne Ice Shelf on the northwest coast of Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has broken up, reducing in size by almost half and setting large ice islands adrift in the Arctic Ocean.

This October, University of Alberta virologist Michael Houghton received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his role in discovering the Hepatitis C virus.

These researchers repurposed their food disinfection technology to clean N95 masks used in hospitals and long-term care homes.