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Dr. Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa and his team at the University of Ghana have discovered processing methods that will make chocolate both sweeter and healthier in the near future. This is good news indeed for the chocolate producing countries in Africa that have lost production...

Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following statement about spring COVID-19 boosters: “As we enter spring and the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial that we continue to remain vigilant in our...

With exoplanets now being discovered by the thousands, and estimated to be in the billions in our galaxy alone, attention is naturally turning to how astronomers might be able to search for evidence of life on any of those far-away worlds. Now, a team...

Manganese, as it exists in the present environment, acts on honey bees in a way that is very similar to the long-term effects of methamphetamine on humans. Yehuda Ben-Shahar and Eirik Søvik, biologists at Washington University in St. Louis, together with colleagues from Andrew...

Positive atoms can bond to positive atoms despite the prevailing molecular orbital theory that at present indicates that the bonding of positive atoms to positive atoms is not possible. Professor Henrik Kjærgaard and his Quantum, Spectra and Dynamics group at the University of Copenhagen’s...

How to keep your toddler safe in 3-feet of snow may seem fairly easy until you consider the snow is deeper than your child is tall. Playing in the snow may seem irresistible, but if the snow is not solid enough and you set...

Is music really a "universal language"? Two articles in the most recent issue of Science support the idea that music all around the globe shares important commonalities, despite many differences. Researchers led by Samuel Mehr at Harvard University have undertaken a large-scale analysis...

When mice learn to do a new task, their brain activities change over time as they advance from 'novice' to 'expert.' The changes are reflected in the wiring of cell circuits and activities of neurons. Using a two-photon imaging microscope and a wealth of...