Slippery Arctic slope | Mating aging | Winners & losers | April 2, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
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How geography shaped North American Indigenous languages 
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published March 27, 2019 | 17:01 EDT (Brief from the Royal Society) Researchers modelled North American language diversity at time of European contact, using influences such as topography, rivers, climate change since the last Ice Age, precipitation, and other ecological factors, to gain insight into the factors that […]
Prepare for drought conditions in southern Canada as the Arctic warms
Nature Published March 27, 2019 | 14:00 EDT When Arctic regions warmed relative to equatorial regions beginning about 12,000 years ago, temperate regions saw substantially less rain- and snowfall, researchers say. Palaeoclimate records from the end of the last Ice Age to some 5,000 years ago and climate simulations indicate that weakening temperature gradients led to […]
March 26, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Arctic warming, southern drought | What drives language dispersal | March 26, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
March 19, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Asteroid observations | Ice-resistant bugs | Young, risky sex | March 19, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
March 12, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Newborns’ first week | Archiving otters | Gentrification sleuthing | March 12, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
March 5, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Old-growth lichens | Angry gods | Zika microcephaly | March 5, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
February 26, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Climate diets | Ancient clam gardens | Deep-sea plastic | February 26, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
February 19, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Speedy schooling | Socially informed fish | Women’s heart health | February 19, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
February 12, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
City heat | Food poisoning prospects | Breast-pump microbiome | February 12, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
February 5, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up
Salmon for the birds | Crop diversity | Melting ice sheets | February 5, 2019 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
Sea stars wiped out by disease and abnormally warm waters
Science Advances Published January 30, 2019 14:00 ET (News release from Science Advances) From California to British Columbia, sunflower starfish – an important predator in the Northeast Pacific – declined dramatically in both nearshore and deep waters from 2013 to 2015. Both the sea star wasting disease that ravaged the waters of the Northeast Pacific and […]
Timeline of Denisova Cave occupation revealed
Nature Published January 30, 2019 13:00 ET The Denisovans were a hominin species whose fossils are known only from a few bones and teeth found in Denisova Cave, Siberia. In one of two related papers, researchers present 50 new radiocarbon dates from the site, and describe three new Denisovan fossil fragments. Based on the oldest fossil, […]
SMCC Heads Up | January 29, 2019
Sea-star decline | New Denovisan fossils | Exercise barriers | SMCC Heads Up | January 29, 2019 Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
SMCC Heads Up | January 22, 2019
Baby addiction | New child-cancer test | Dopamine & music | SMCC Heads Up | January 22, 2019. Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>
SMCC Heads Up | January 15, 2019
Phase out fossil fuels | Stem-cell fix for MS | Burgess Shale | SMCC Heads Up | January 15, 2019. Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists. Read more>