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New research can quickly identify toxins from oil sands and tailing ponds
23-Mar-2022
Waste materials from oil sands extraction, stored in tailings ponds, can pose a risk to the natural habitat and neighbouring communities when they leach into groundwater and surface ecosystems. Until now, the challenge for the oil sands industry is that the proper analysis of toxic waste ...
Findings shed light on factors behind Omicron’s increased transmissibility
24-Jan-2022
Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine have conducted the world’s first molecular-level structural analysis of the Omicron variant spike protein. The findings were published in Science. The analysis – done at near atomic resolution using cryo-electron microscopy – reveals how the heavily ...
Superconductivity breakthroughs
25-Mar-2015
The Canadian research community on high-temperature superconductivity continues to lead this exciting scientific field with groundbreaking results coming hot on the heels of big theoretical questions. The latest breakthrough, which will be published Science, answers a key question on the ...
12-Mar-2015
An international team of researchers has used infinitely short light pulses to observe ultrafast changes in the electron-level properties of superconductors, setting a new standard for temporal resolution in the field.The scientists - from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the University ...
15-Apr-2009
A boat conformation of the Michaelis complex of beta-mannosidase Man2A has been demonstrated by a collaboration of scientists in the UK and Canada. Gideon Davies and Wendy Offen at the University of York and colleagues from Newcastle University, worked with scientists from Queen’s University, ...
