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Canada missing out on pharmaceutical research

Published: 10 January 2013

(John Bergeron): Canada is a strong nation economically, with a $1.7-trillion gross domestic product and spending on research and development in excess of $30 billion annually. By any measure these...

NHL on its way back, but will hockey fans follow?

Published: 10 January 2013

After months of waiting and hoping, hockey fans reacted with a mix of emotions Sunday to news of a tentative agreement between the NHL and its players.

Regular Cervical Cancer screen should start after 25

Published: 10 January 2013

Canadian women should start being routinely screened for cervical cancer at a later age than previously recommended and do it less frequently than has been the norm until now, new national...

How do environments talk to genes?

Published: 10 January 2013

A report elucidates the widely recognized, but poorly understood, concept of gene-environment interaction, finding a molecular mechanism in the case of post-traumatic stress disorder: demethylation...

Ground water, running on empty

Published: 10 January 2013

The underground aquifers that store more than 90 percent of Earth's liquid freshwater are at risk of being sucked dry. A study published in Nature in August showed that annual demand from the world...

Mapping the world's vertebrates

Published: 10 January 2013

A biodiversity map drawn up by British naturalist Russel Wallace in 1876 depicting how life evolved on our continents has been updated after 136 years.聽 Technological advances and data on more than...

Games for science

Published: 10 January 2013

Scientists are using video games to tap the collective intelligence of people around the world, while doctors and educators are turning to games to treat and teach. [鈥 鈥淢SA is probably one of the...

Exposing food falsehoods

Published: 10 January 2013

Let鈥檚 start the new year on sound footing by addressing some nutritional falsehoods that circulate widely in cyberspace, locker rooms, supermarkets and health food stores. As a result, millions of...

Amnesia and the self that remains when memory is lost

Published: 10 January 2013

(看片视频's Dan Levitin): Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives -- someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time with one-on-one. We had some...

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