Science page 165
Subsections:
- Science in brief
Sturdy microbes survive crushing pressures
Scientists have observed bacteria that thrive at pressures 10,000 times greater than Earth’s atmospheric pressure. A team working at the [...]
Science Briefs
AIDS vaccine put on hold The National Institutes of Health in the US is ditching funding for a controversial new [...]
LOVE…DON’T DO IT
SYPHILIS Syphilis is caused by a bacterial infection. The initial infection soon develops into an open sore called a chancre. [...]
ETHICS WATCH
A panel discussion led by the Joint Centre for Bioethics last Wednesday regarding the future of stem cell research, human [...]
No pain, no gain, no DREAM?
While performing a routine genetic experiment, University of Toronto Ph.D. student Mary Cheng discovered a gene in lab mice that [...]
MAESTRO conducts sky survey
U of T physics graduate Dr. Tom McElroy is getting ready to send a MAESTRO into space on board the [...]
SCIENCE BRIEFS
Oh, shit! Colorectal cancer—a highly curable form of the disease, but the second-leading cancer killer in the U.S.—may have an [...]
Oh, he’s just big-boned…
There is something visceral about dinosaurs. Even people who are unwilling under normal circumstances to visit a museum will often [...]

