High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden ‘diet’ foods could…
Month: April 2017
India’s outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming…
Managing disease spread through accessible modeling
A new computer modeling study is aimed at making epidemiological models more accessible and useful…
The fast and the crashed: Collisions five times more likely for street racers
Ontarians who have street-raced at least once in the past year are five times more…
Fighting infections with a silver sword
Silver has been used to fight infections since ancient times. Today, researchers are using sophisticated…
No biochar benefit for temperate zone crops, says new report
Scientists believe that biochar, the partially burned remains of plants, has been used as fertilizer…
Chemical causes of battery ‘capacity fade’ identified
One of the major culprits in capacity fade of high-energy lithium-ion batteries has now been…
Using 3-D weapons of science to fight infectious diseases
Researchers have achieved a significant milestone in the effort to understand pathogens responsible for some…
High rate of tumor shrinkage among pancreatic cancer patients
Adding cisplatin to standard gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel drug treatment provided a very high rate of tumor shrinkage…
Low-sodium diet might not lower blood pressure
A new study that followed more than 2,600 men and women for 16 years found…