Viruses may explain why small animals are more prone to cancer
Cancer is a numbers game. Larger, longer-lived animals with more cells...
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Canada’s World-Renowned Freshwater Research Facility Saved by New Management
The Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Canada’s flagship environmental research center that...
Charles Darwin Gets Busted
LONDON—The votes are in, and the top prize in a contest...
Measleslike Virus Likely Culprit in U.S. Dolphin Die-Off
A measleslike virus appears to be the chief cause of the...
Budget Plan Leaves U.K. Science Treading Water
U.K. researchers are going to have live with a flat R&D...
Study Finds Women Biologists More Likely to Avoid Spotlight at Conferences
Women who have beaten the odds to find themselves in the...
Why Most Snails Coil to the Right
GUELPH, CANADA—When plucking a snail from the beach you’d be lucky...
German Researchers Withdraw From Canadian Oil Sands Project
TORONTO, CANADA—German scientists have pulled out of an international research project...
Canada’s Cash Controversy
TORONTO, CANADA—The Bank of Canada has issued an apology for expunging...
Multicellularity Driven by Bacteria
MONTREAL, CANADA—When taking a dip this summer you will probably swallow...
Scientists march on Canadian parliament
To the mournful tune of a lone saxophone scientists marched through...
Fruitflies evolve number sense
US and Canadian researchers have evolved a population of fruitflies that...
Neighbouring cells help cancers dodge drugs
Cancers can resist destruction by drugs with the help of proteins...
Resistant bed-bugs ‘from tropics’
New results suggest that insecticide use in the tropics is to...
Vaccine developed against Ebola
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly...
Names proposed for new elements
Scientists have put forward their suggested names for the newest additions...
Second mission to scale deep mountains announced
Scientists are set to begin a six-week mission to explore the...
Alien rats take on prey’s role
Invasive rats are compensating for the loss of native pollinators in...
Jawbones are ‘shaped by diet’, a study finds
Diet has shaped human jaw bones; a result that could help...
CO2 climate impacts reassessed
Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide...
