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Statisticians Alarmed As Canada Zooms Towards Labour Shortage

Figures from Canadian experts show that the country will soon become victim to serious labour shortage unless drastic measures are taken. Statistics Canada warned// Tuesday that Canada would have to rely heavily on immigration to plug the gaps left in, as Canada’s aging workforce puts up their legs...

Nanoparticle Stops Cancer From Spreading

...than traditional chemotherapy. A team from the University of California, San Diego, designed a "nanoparticle" anti-cancer drug delivery system that zooms in on a protein marker called integrin avB3, which is found on the surface of certain tumor blood vessels. The marker is tied to the development of ne...

Zooms in Biological News

Dirty snow causes early runoff in Cascades, Rockies

...or Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. Compared to planet-scale models that can distinguish land features 200 kilometers apart, this computer model zooms in on the landscape, increasing resolution to 15 kilometers. At 15 kilometers, features such as mountain ranges and soot deposition are better defined...

AAAS announces winners of 2007 AAAS Science Journalism Awards

...gan community. Kathy Sawyer, a freelance science writer formerly with The Washington Post , said Alvords well-crafted and enterprising online package zooms in to capture the effects of global climate change on Michigans Keweenaw Peninsula. The writing, supplemented by telling photos, provides specific, gr...

How Fruitflies Know It's Time for Lunch

...mical receptors in the mouth, which set off neurons that signal the antennal lobe of the central nervous system. From here, the electrical stimulation zooms toward the so-called mushroom body, a mushroom-shaped cluster of neurons involved in olfactory processing. Less is known about the gustatory signals, ...