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Eighteen bat houses in southern Alberta have been sprayed with a probiotic cocktail, aimed at preventing white-nose syndrome ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.

A team featuring Canadian scientists has, after years of testing, determined the cause of the devastating sea star wasting ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that geometrically models organic objects and creates photorealistic, ...

In a new study published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions®, researchers discovered that potato plants rely on salicylic acid (SA)—a plant hormone best known for its role in triggering immune re ...