Harsh Rathod was studying at the University of Victoria when a disaster 12,000 kilometres away set his career path in stone—or at least in concrete.
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A Rose Inspires Smart Way to Collect and Purify Water
The rose may be one of the most iconic symbols of the fragility of love in popular culture, but now the flower could hold more than just symbolic value.
UBC Study Holds Promise for Novel and Safe Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes
Reducing a specific protein in the fat cells of mice not only prevents onset of Type 2 diabetes but also appears to reverse the disease in the animals, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have found.
Sense of Smell, Pollution and Neurological Disease Connection Explored
A consensus is building that air pollution can cause neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but how fine, sooty particles cause problems in the brain is still an unanswered question.
Nanoporous Material Nets Contaminant from Water
Barely visible material that looks like tiny grains of sand may hold the key to removing an invisible health threat that has contaminated water supplies across the country.
Here Be Monsters: We Filmed a Giant Squid in America's Backyard
Scientists are usually pictured on screen as sober and humorless types, pre-occupied with numbers and empty facts.
