This year, Science Borealis celebrates our 4th anniversary by paying tribute to our amazing team of volunteers! These are the folks who do the hard work every day to keep things running. We had each team member draw a simple line drawing self-portrait, which was then colourized and SciBorated by art team member Peggy Muddles. […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor The Nobel Prizes are a bonanza for science communicators, as they give us a rare opportunity to talk about topics that would not otherwise come up in conversation. Canadians recently got a taste of this when Arthur B. Macdonald shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the media […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor When my wife and I got engaged, one of our friends gave us a very special card featuring a familiar-looking shape. Drawing on my undergraduate chemistry courses, I identified it as the face-centred cubic crystalline structure of diamond; the little “C’s” stood for carbon. This was my first introduction […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor As a science writer, people often ask me which came first: my passion for chemistry or my love of words and language. I never have a good answer – these things come about organically, so to speak – but I’d like to point out that the two worlds aren’t […]
by Tyler Irving Chemistry subject editor In my last post, I discussed how chemistry is the key to nanotechnology, a hot new field that’s promising to improve everything from smart phones to health care. I also mentioned that nano-sized particles are smaller than the wavelengths of light, which makes it maddeningly difficult to “see” what’s […]
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