Great Barrier Reef suffers mass coral bleaching event

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered “very widespread” damage after rising sea temperatures caused the third…

Coronavirus: Tracking the enemy down—to its genes

As the COVID-19 crisis deepens worldwide, a team of Montreal researchers in bioinformatics is using artificial…

PIA23814: Aram Chaos

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Flavor research for consumer protection

In 2013, the German Stiftung Warentest found harmful benzene in drinks with cherry flavor. But how…

Schools are moving online, but not all children start out digitally equal

More than one billion young people around the world are now shut out of classrooms due…

As the ocean warms, marine species relocate toward the poles: study

A global analysis of over 300 marine species spanning more than 100 years, shows that mammals,…

'Women's work': How coronavirus may forever change the way we care within families

The global spread of COVID-19 has illuminated the “care crisis” that has been building for decades. …

Astronaut conducts heart research on station with former colleague

When NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently slipped her hands into the Life Sciences Glovebox on the…

Opinion: Grant bail to unsentenced prisoners to stop the spread of coronavirus

Prison is, understandably, a very closed environment. Many prisons are also overcrowded. COVID-19 has already entered…

Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer

Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best…