By Robert Britton, Professor, Simon Fraser University
Matthew Anketell, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
Generating up to 100 times more antiviral drug candidates than was previously practical — in weeks rather than months or years — could improve the odds of finding a drug quickly when necessary.
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By Valerie Onyia Babatope, Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management, MacEwan University
At some point, most of us have heard the same advice about work: find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.
The idea of a “dream job” sounds inspiring, even noble; it suggests that work can be a source of meaning, identity and personal fulfillment. But this ideal can also create a significant amount of pressure, especially for those just entering the workforce.
If your career does not feel like a calling — or if your interests change over time and your work no longer feels…
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By Rassim Khelifa, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology; Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Global Change Biology, Concordia University
The Barbary macaque is legally protected in Algeria; however, crop losses could increase hostility toward the species if farmers lack practical ways to protect their crops.
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By Sébastien Lord, Professeur titulaire, Université de Montréal
Growing older does not necessarily mean “disappearing from public life.” It can mean continuing to live fully, in a different way, feeling in control of one’s own movements.
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By Amnesty International
As Pacific leaders, communities and civil society gather in Fiji and Tuvalu for the Pre-COP31 meetings, the expected absence of many world leaders must not become another excuse for climate inaction, Amnesty International said today. The meetings come after an unusually hot European summer, with August 2026 becoming the joint-hottest month on record. Against the […] The post Pre-COP31: World leaders must show up for the Pacific through action, not just speeches appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Daniel Cash, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
Credit ratings have become so important in the financing of development that Africa has seen fit to build its own agency.
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By Misheck Mutize, Post Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Cape Town
The new credit rating agency set up by African countries was not established to replace the existing rating architecture but to expand it.
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By Mercedeh Erfanian, Research assistant professor, ESSCA School of Management
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For people with misophonia, certain sounds trigger default reactions are aversion and anger.
Although it can be debilitating in everyday life, this condition is not simply a matter of heightened sensitivity to sounds.
Misophonia manifests as a wide range of symptoms and disorders affecting several areas, both emotional and cognitive.
Most people find some sounds unpleasant, such as a baby crying or a siren, because of features such…
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By Guest Contributor
Over 1,180 Facebook posts and 100 TikTok videos analyzed showed how a genuine farmers’ protest was inflated by clusters of accounts sharing identical messages, then folded into anti-government, anti-EU and pro-Kremlin narratives.
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By Duncan Stibbard Hawkes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Baylor University
Christopher von Rueden, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond
On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal – a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank, covers the carcass in dry grass to hide it from hyenas and heads home to enlist help.
News spreads like wildfire across the camp. Everybody rushes to the kill. They divide up the carcass, carry it back, then divvy it up some more. Every family gets some, and after the meat is cooked,…
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