Research
The lab was itself subjected to a botched sting operation by undercover agents seeking to discredit its work.
Queen’s University terrorism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam is no stranger to intersectoral strife.
Thanks to researcher Shannon Berch, UBC might be the first Canadian university to successfully cultivate the pricey foodie staple.
The 15 teams chosen for the Canadian Space Agency’s CubeSat program have until this fall to get their designs ready for a 2021 launch.
Canada is a leader in technology to capture and store carbon dioxide, although some view it as only a stopgap in our move to a carbon-free future.
As firms like Uber and Airbnb become ubiquitous, Canadian academics struggle to find reliable data to analyze how the “digital platform economy” affects labour and policy-making.
Our emphasis on boutique funding programs, rather than open discovery science, hampers our prospects.
Researchers and funders are increasingly focusing on how to prepare for a changed – and changing – climate.
Scientists have found that urban animals are not just adapting their behaviours, but changing at a genetic level compared to their country cousins.
Clusters are often described as prioritizing interdisciplinary collaboration, but that comes with its own unique set of challenges.
A new Wellcome Trust sponsored survey will hopefully bring about some positive change in the field.
87 percent of students say university has so far met or exceeded their expectations, according to the Canadian University Survey Consortium.
Barbie’s You Can Be Anything campaign matches girls up with female mentors excelling in male-dominated fields.
“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.”
To find value in scientific research, we need to understand and respect the social environment in which it occurs.
Canadian researchers offered a sneak peek of some of the results at Congress in Vancouver.
Mona Nemer is creating a new youth advisory council of people aged 18 to 30 from a range of backgrounds.
Systemic racism is in the very foundations of universities; its influence is insidious and persistent.
“We’ve named more new dinosaurs in the last 20 years than in the previous 150,” says one researcher.
Canada’s “queen of giraffes” – denied tenure because she was a woman, despite her groundbreaking research – finally gets the recognition she deserves.