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Did you know that the dress you’re wearing, or the jacket you’re rocking, or the new polo you’re sporting might be destroying orangutan habitats in Indonesia? In this National Observer video below, Michael Ruffolo takes the shirt off rayon.

In a recent article, a team led by Dr. Leslie Field was up in Alaska spreading sand on a frozen lake. The researchers are hoping to find a way to stop sea ice from melting. Could this actually work?

Across Canada and around the world today, people are marching for science. Under U.S. president Donald Trump’s administration, the dismissal and defunding of science – especially, but not limited to, climate and environmental science – has given new urgency to efforts to protect and promote science in the public interest.

Science Minister Kirsty Duncan's office says the minister will “continue to work hard" with public sector unions to "attract, develop and retain" talented and diverse people including female scientists.

​If it seems as if the weather's getting weirder, you're not wrong. An index of extreme weather in Canada compiled by the insurance industry backs that up.

The family of Apotex founder Barry Sherman says they are proud he is being appointed to the Order of Canada. Sherman was nominated for his entrepreneurship in the pharmaceutical industry as well as his philanthropic support of education and other charities. The Order of Canada cannot be awarded to someone after their death, but Sherman was nominated more than six months ago.

Premier Kathleen Wynne wrapped up a trade mission to China and says the trip has secured nearly $2 billion in agreements between Ontario and Chinese companies.

Canada could soon be dropping fungus 'bombs' on forests infected by the emerald ash borer, if this scientist has anything to say about it.

An analysis of dozens of blogs that question the threat climate change poses to polar bears has found those publications ignore virtually all the science on both the bears and sea ice.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday he intends to replace the outside experts that advise him on science and public health issues with new board members holding more diverse views.

Montreal’s world−famous brain research centre is in the middle of conducting an experiment on what could be its most ambitious subject: itself.

When Libby Osgood looks into the night sky above Charlottetown, she said she sees it through the lens of God's creation and her own contribution to the engineering of NASA's satellites.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin examines why some people don't buy into climate change, what that means for media, and why U.S. reporters seem to love Canada's prime minister.

In the clinical trial, 61 per cent of participants developed full-blown MS in that time frame, as predicted. But that dropped to 33 per cent in those given minocycline, a drug used to treat acne.

Because good things come in small packages.