A lesson for policy-makers from the life of Tony Pawson
’View basic science as a long-term investment that will yield completely unexpected dividends’
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Why we shouldn’t force students to study science
Prof. Pettigrew on students ditching STEM
Stephen Harper and the knowledge economy: perfect strangers
Paul Wells on the bad news in the Science, Technology and Innovation Council’s latest report
Science in Canada: Failure doesn’t come cheap
A prominent science blogger tears the NRC apart
When science goes silent
With the muzzling of scientists, Harper’s obsession with controlling the message verges on the Orwellian
Scientists grow kidneys in a lab, successfully transplant them into rats
Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted kidneys grown in a lab into rats with some success, in...
Bill Nye urges action on climate change
Science Guy’s talk sells out at University of Ottawa
Mystery of owls spinning their heads all the way around revealed
Special neck arteries are the key
Scientists find tapeworms in 270 million-year-old shark poop
Scientists in Brazil have found fossilized poop from a prehistoric shark that appears to contain 93 individual tapeworm eggs. The...
Grad student finds new asteroid crater in southern Alberta
Alberta grad student Wei Xie was not the first person to notice the strange terrain west of Bow City, Alta. , but she is one of...