'Murder hornets' add bite to bee population worries
"Murder hornets' have entered the North American landscape and lexicon with horror-film imagery.
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2020
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Algae tasked with producing COVID-19 test kits
Researchers at Western and Suncor are teaming up to use algae as a way to produce serological test kits for COVID-19 – a new process that overcomes shortfalls of existing processes while saving money.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2020
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Study: Convert emergency shelter space into long-term affordable housing
A program to convert emergency shelter space into long-term affordable housing showed incredible benefits for the community's most vulnerable, prompting a call from Western researchers to push for additional permanent housing ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2020
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Researchers crack COVID-19 genome signature
Using machine learning, a team of Western computer scientists and biologists have identified an underlying genomic signature for 29 different COVID-19 DNA sequences.
Biotechnology
Apr 28, 2020
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Researchers offer glimpse into dinosaur ecosystems
By casting an eye into the daily lives of dinosaurs millions of years in the past, Western researchers may be helping humanity get a glimpse of its future.
Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2020
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How kudzu became the 'bad seed' of the plant world
Under different circumstances, kudzu might be heralded for its utility—its leaves ideal for grazing cattle, its root a treatment for stomach upset. Instead, the climbing and coiling perennial vine is almost universally ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2020
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Pandemic making Canada's economic future uncertain
Even though Canada lost more than a million jobs in March—enough to produce an unprecedented one-month jump in the unemployment rate from 5.6 percent in February to 7.8 percent—the months that follow may prove even more ...
Economics & Business
Apr 17, 2020
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Pandemic offers pause, not end, to globalization
It'll take more than a pandemic to stop the march of globalization. In fact, it might be the offshoots of globalization that help humanity combat this and other global threats, according to one Western researcher.
Economics & Business
Apr 14, 2020
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Ease up on e-learning expectations for kids
You may have seen the Israeli mom's video rant about the intensity of the workload of her four children during online learning: "If we don't die of Corona, we'll die of distance learning!"
Education
Apr 8, 2020
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Panicked consumers seek control amid the crisis
Empty shelves once filled with rolls and rolls of toilet paper. It is one of the more enduring—and strange—images of the COVID-19 crisis in Canada.
Economics & Business
Mar 18, 2020
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