In the famous book, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen says to Alice, “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” It is a strangely fitting analogy for many things in biology, but
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“I’m gonna pop some carbs, only got a lil’ glucose in my pathway….” These lyrics to the tune of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop are indeed awesome. Written and recorded as part of a song contest at the University of Ottawa, third
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When you are eating a salad, do you ever wonder where your vegetables come from? Not which farmers were responsible for growing them, but rather, how have these plants evolved into the vegetables we know today? What did the genomes
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On March 14, a lineup stretched outside the Ottawa Convention Centre and along the Mackenzie King Bridge all the way to Elgin Street as 4,400 people waited to hear a talk by Bill Nye the Science Guy. Organized by the
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Do you know where plastic comes from? Plastics are made from a mixture based on natural polymers such as latex or rubber. When they react with ethylene gases and metal-based catalysts, such mixtures produce various types of plastics that can
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The study of the interaction between light and matter on the nanoscale (a nanometre scale is about one billionth of a metre) is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology. Applications can be designed, for example, to capture real time
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“We’re creating connections that span a continent. Global citizenship isn’t about assimilating cultures; it’s about bringing them together,” says Alex Norris, a second-year student from the Faculty of Science, who traveled during the summer of 2012 to the small rural
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It is with profound sadness that I share the news that our dear colleague Dr. André E. Lalonde, former dean of the Faculty of Science passed away on December 21, 2012.The cause of death was cancer. A dedicated professor,
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In 2010, uOttawa student Paul Leduc had just completed an undergraduate degree in social sciences and had moved away from home for the first time to Sudbury. He had been admitted into Cambrian College’s paramedic program, which he hoped would
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Remember the movie Waterworld? Kevin Costner played a kind of antihero mariner sailing the oceans of a future world in which the polar ice caps had melted and left only very few ‘oases’ of land. It is an interesting premise
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