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Alcohol intolerance
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Most individuals drink alcohol and experience a rather balanced mix of pleasant and unpleasant effects. However, some individuals have alcohol intolerance – colloquially known as alcohol flush syndrome – which makes alcohol consumption a...
Synthesizing rare elements using inorganic chemistry
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David Herbert is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry. As a synthetic inorganic chemist, he uses chemical reactions to produce particular molecules or compounds of interest.
“The focus of inorganic chemistry tends to...
The University of Manitoba professor that helped launch a rocket
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Samar Safi-Harb is the Canada Research Chair in Supernova Remnants and Astrophysics in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Manitoba. She is also a highly-regarded professor of physics and astronomy, former...
The science of LSD
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In 1943, a Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann experienced the world’s first acid trip.
While the rest of Europe was gearing up for the Second World War, Hofmann found himself working for Sandoz Laboratories in...
The fascinating compounds of plants
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Members of the plant kingdom make hundreds of thousands of molecules called secondary metabolites. These compounds aren’t crucial for life, but are instead used for things like communication and defense – think of the...
Space briefs
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Made of the right stuff
NASA closed its call for applications for astronaut candidates on Feb. 18, receiving an unprecedented 18,300 applications. The agency opened the vacancy on Dec. 14, 2015.
NASA will now move on...
Finding the ripples in space-time
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On Feb. 11, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in a press conference that they have observed gravitational waves.
A corresponding peer-reviewed journal article was published in the American Physical Society...
