Crowdsourcing science
Peer review is the way things get done in science. Authors submit write-ups of their experiments to journals for publication. The journals send the articles…
Tom Ingram
Time out
The leaders of several top virology labs have agreed to a 60-day halt on research involving new strains of avian influenza that are more transmissible…
The clock is ticking
It’s five minutes to midnight. The Doomsday Clock is an image representing the severity of threats to the planet and humanity in general. On the…
Eradication victory
As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as…
Moon-mapping
NASA’s latest Discovery mission has entered orbit around the moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on Sept. 10,…
Conservation conversation
A draft has been released of a new plan to conserve boreal woodland caribou in eastern Manitoba, and the public has been invited to weigh-in…
‘It’s over’
A controversial 2009 paper that linked a mouse retrovirus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been through dozens of criticisms and a partial retraction. Now,…
Efficient altruism
The other day I was walking around campus when I passed a pink fire truck. It was, of course, related to some kind of breast…
Tenofovir troubles
Just weeks after research on tenofovir gel, a preventative HIV treatment for women, won a prize from the African Academy of Sciences — as reported…
Hostile environment
Two years after a series of controversial emails between climate scientists were released by an anonymous source, a second set of more than 5,000 messages…