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New app for nature lovers helps create biodiversity network
A new University of Alberta app is encouraging Albertans to get back to nature and talk about it.
Innovative research finds influenza detection system in body
University of Saskatchewan researchers have found a unique “sensor” mechanism inside cells that enables the immune system to recognize influenza, a finding that may lead to improved vaccines in the future.
How has climate change affected the boreal forest?
A Lakehead University researcher is receiving more than $440,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to investigate the impact of climate change on the boreal forest.
Melt-Rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet Highly Sensitive to Changes in Ocean Temperatures
Melting of ice shelves in West Antarctica speeds up and slows down in response to changes in deep ocean temperature, and is far more variable than previously thought, according to new research published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Lakehead professor studied 1.4 billion-year-old rocks near Dorion to determine abundance of life on Earth
A Lakehead University Geology professor is part of a team of researchers who collaborated on an article exploring oxygen and life on Earth.