By Betty Zou What do the scientific breakthrough of the year, fecal transplants and pea plants have in common? Microbes! The newest research in these and many other areas was showcased recently at the 66th Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) annual conference, which took place at the University of Toronto on June 12 to 15, […]
Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors After our Science Borealis Reader Survey, we randomly selected four participating blogs to be profiled here on the Borealis Blog during 2016. This is the second of those featured posts. RN: I’m delighted to introduce my new Multimedia co-editor, Liz Martin-Silverstone, a paleontological powerhouse studying across the […]
By Michelle Lavery, General Science Editor Here at Science Borealis, we have no qualms about getting creative. Science communication is all about finding new and innovative ways of getting complex information to a wide and varied audience. We’re all storytellers; we’ve got poets (Phish Doc) and artists (Raymond’s Brain and CommNatural, to name […]
by Lindsay Jolivet & Kasra Hassani Health, Medicine, and Veterinary Science subject editors It’s been an animal house on the Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science blog feed lately, with posts from several bloggers highlighting new science about some of our favourite creatures. And learning about mice, dogs, frogs, chickens and horses has taught us a […]
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors It’s no secret that scientist-types tend to be very creative people, or that artist-types often have an affinity for the sciences. Which is why we think that if Picasso were alive today, he might have been a science multimedia blogger, taking a Rubik’s cubistic approach to explain mathematics […]
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