Randy Mikula: Trading Water for Oil - Tailings Management in Surface-Mined Oil Sands About 12 barrels of water are needed to produce each barrel of bitumen from surface mined oil […]
Dr. Chris Metcalfe: What are we flushing down the drain? Assessing the hazards of pharmaceuticals and personal care products There are a variety of chemicals that we flush down the […]
Dr. Eleanor Fish: Se préparer à la prochaine pandémie : comment pouvons-nous avoir le dessus sur les nouvelles maladies Les infections virales émergentes constituent une menace importante pour la santé […]
Dr. Kevin Englehart: Bionic Limbs - from science fiction to reality Advances in capturing and processing the signals from undamaged nerves are opening the door to prosthetic devices that permit […]
Dr. Bryan Kolb: Understanding the plastic brain Although once considered a static organ, the brain continually rewires its structure and function to adapt to very different environmental, cultural, and developmental […]
Dr. Jeffrey Dahn: Are Batteries and Fuel Cells ready for All-Electric Vehicles? Hybrid electric vehicles have arrived, but they lack a substantial all-electric range. The anticipated next generation of “plug-in” […]
Dr. Bridget Stutchbury: When the canary dies Migratory songbirds are experiencing one of the most spectacular declines in numbers of all animal species. It is a sobering thought that Rachel […]
Dr. Marc St-Onge: Hot prospects in the cold: the new Geological Map of the Arctic The newly-released Geological Map of the Arctic shows that Canada’s North is much more than […]
Dr. Victoria Kaspi: The Violent High Energy Universe A glance at the night sky during a quiet walk in the dark countryside suggests that our cosmos is calm and largely […]
Francis A. Plummer: University of Manitoba and National Microbiology Laboratory (Winnipeg), Public Health Agency of Canada In recent decades, more than 40 new or newly recognized diseases have emerged, largely […]
Dr. David G. Barber: Climate Change and Arctic Sea Ice: So what is all the fuss about? People are becoming increasingly aware that something unusual is happening in the Arctic. […]