Landmark research could lead to better understanding of diseases
SCIENCE: Researchers have found an answer to a fundamental question that has eluded scientists since the discovery of DNA (FREE)
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A user’s guide to coping in an age of anxiety
SCIENCE: Health law and policy professor Timothy Caulfield takes readers through an average day to show how evidence can allay our fears and inform our decisions (FREE)
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Cancel culture leading to an exodus of universities’ free-thinkers
CAITLIN ROSE MORGANTE: Just as a candle’s flame starved of oxygen sputters and dies, so does the advancement of knowledge when starved of criticism
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Remarkable technology kept under wraps by U.S. military
LEE HARDING: The space race has been fully engaged for years. And military powers like the United States are sitting on some stunning discoveries
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Why radio frequencies can be a health issue
EAMONN BROSNAN: The higher the frequency, the more energy the wave contains and, thus, the more risk it might have for human health
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Synthetic meat is the new frontier of food
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: If our livestock farmers were threatened by the plant-based revolution, they haven’t seen anything yet
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Don’t blame wildfires on climate change
PAUL DRIESSEN: These ferocious fires have been fueled by decades of forest mismanagement policies inflamed by radical environmentalist ideology
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Skepticism over Covid-19 response growing
PETER MENZIES: Science is messy, and its bewilderment as to how to respond to Covid-19 is beginning to wear on people
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Forensic anthropologist helps police identify unknown victims
CRIME: For Pamela Mayne Correia, the most satisfying cases are the ones she helps solve with the scarcest of skeletal remains
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Is alien life floating in the clouds of Venus?
MICHAEL TAUBE: There’s a good chance the global shift from skepticism to possibility about extraterrestrial life is about to extend even further
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Worse birth outcomes, higher pregnancy risk in poorest rural regions
HEALTH: Alberta researchers identify gradients of risk for preterm births, small and large size at birth, smoking and drug use by mothers
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COVID-19 and scientific fallibility
PAT MURPHY: The pandemic has underlined that we should neither disregard nor worship uncritically at the altar of science
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