Fishing for seafood fraud report of questionable value
The methodology used by non-profit Oceana for its report lacks scientific rigour…
The red meat merry-go-round
The protein war isn’t about the amount of meat we should eat, but rather about how studies on nutrition should be interpreted. It's messy…
Antibiotics no cure for colds or flu
And using an antibiotic when not needed makes patients more vulnerable to antibiotic-resistant infections…
Going bananas for a threatened fruit
A deadly fungus is spreading all over the world, so we can expect to pay more for bananas. But our world-class scientists could help solve the problem…
Lab-grown coffee – agriculture’s rising revolution
We are at the dawn of a dramatic change in agricultural that’s drawing acute attention to the true cost of bringing food to our plates…
The dark side of the Non-GMO Project
Suggesting that food products with the Non-GMO Project label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence…
Say no to a carbon tax, for the sake of your children
Research shows that only those born 45 years after a carbon tax is implemented will see any benefits that outweigh higher energy prices…
Planting the seeds for broader understanding of food’s origins
In the retail food business, customers have plenty of questions about how their food is produced. The answers often surprise them. Interest groups are taking advantage of people's ignorance about GMOs in their messaging…
Into the great wide open: Nova Scotia’s space ambitions
A planned spaceport on the East Coast would launch eight satellite-carrying rockets annually by 2022…
The biology behind learning and memory
What happens inside the human brain when a person learns new behaviour…