A simple online game can teach people to more accurately sort waste—with lasting results, a new UBC study has found.
Online game trains players how to sort waste correctly
articles
Talk to the Experts with Iain Stewart-Patterson: Snow safety
When it comes to snow safety, calling Iain Stewart-Patterson an expert is like calling powder skiing enjoyable—accurate, but only scratching the surface.
Sea sponge study offers clues into how life adapts to harsh environments
A new study of modern sea sponges is beginning to tell us how early life forms such as sea sponges found ways to survive in extreme environments prior to the evolution of modern life and the oxygenation of Earth’s oceans between a billion and 541 million years ago.
How to track disease in the 21st century
When a patient goes into a hospital or clinic, whether for a heart attack, stroke, or because they walked into a lamp post (yes, really), a massive amount of data is collected and entered into medical reports.
Coral skeletons teach NOAA about the past ocean
Deep-sea corals have some things in common with trees.
Atomic-scale binary logic could power faster, more energy-efficient electronics
Researchers at the University of Alberta have designed atomic-scale versions of the binary logic components that allow computer processors to perform complex operations.
