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Last mammoths came from North America

An international team of researchers has discovered that the last of the woolly mammoths were from the Yukon and Alaska. McMaster University molecular evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar and his colleagues analyzed the DNA from the remains of 160 of ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  4 Sep 2008

Inspectors failed to adopt more rigorous U.S. measures

TORONTO AND OTTAWA Canadian meat inspectors failed to learn crucial lessons from a deadly listeria outbreak a decade ago, experts on the bacterium suggested yesterday as the food-safety crisis spread further with three more deaths, including that of a ...

From TU THANH HA, BILL CURRY AND ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  27 Aug 2008

You may know how you'll vote before you know it

Undecided about how you will vote if there is a federal election this fall? New research suggests you may not know your own mind. Voters make decisions at an unconscious level before they deliberate about their options, University of Western Ontario ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  21 Aug 2008

Stem cells cloned from menstrual blood

A team of researchers from Canada and the United States has taken an important step toward harnessing the healing power of menstrual blood. They used stem cells isolated from the menstrual blood of two women and cloned by a San Diego company to save ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  19 Aug 2008

Smokin' roaches

Most people don't want to think about cockroaches the size of a small mouse, let alone amorous ones. But University of Lethbridge biologist David Logue has spent hours studying the sexual habits of male Madagascar hissing cockroaches, a large and vocal ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  16 Aug 2008

Meditating through mental illness

The patients are sitting still, their eyes closed, meditating, on the floor of a group therapy room at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. It is the fifth week of an eight-week training course in mindfulness meditation for people ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  15 Aug 2008

Might science soon help stave off the decay of old age?

OTTAWA Anyone over 40 with a well-lit bathroom can see evidence of decay in the mirror every morning. It is probably a good thing people can't peer inside their own bodies, where various types of cells are deteriorating in ways that make wrinkles and ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  2 Aug 2008

Researchers discover how Northern Lights dance

OTTAWA Canadian researchers are part of an international team that has discovered what makes the Northern Lights sometimes race and shimmer across the sky. The team solved the mystery with the help of five satellites and a network of ground-based ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  24 Jul 2008

Scientists get their own Hippocratic oath

Unlike doctors, scientists don't have an ancient moral code like the Hippocratic oath. But graduate students beginning their careers in medical research at the University of Toronto now have their own solemn ceremony in which they pledge to conduct ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  20 Jun 2008

Botanists making a date with history

Three years ago, a team of Israeli researchers took an ancient date seed collected from one of King Herod's palaces and planted it in a small pot. It sprouted, and Methuselah, as they dubbed the sapling, is now 1½ metres high. Radiocarbon dating shows ...

From ANNE MCILROY, Globe and Mail,  13 Jun 2008

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