Category: Heads Up

NS ghost gear | No-sniff crabs | Endangered species laws & Indigenous needs | Wintering Lyme | Pot–pregnancy ER visits | May 16, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

1M tonnes e-waste | Small birds pace climate | Climate crushes forests | Beetle aeronautics | HRT revival | Pan genome | May 9, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Hot oceans | Antibiotic-resistant clouds | Out-of-synch salmon | Mighty soil-saving moss | Dead ducks | Kid sugar | May 2, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Costly bio-invasions | Salmon pathogen hotspots | Polar ice melt | Jay bullies | Jurassic Park? Not yet | April 25, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Massive carbon logjams | Garbage Patch species, ahoy! | Kelp wealth | Banned chemicals in toys | Virus-rich diapers | April 18, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Inequitable flu | Permafrost poisons | Lone eastern wolves | Runaway black hole | Medieval volcanoes | 3rd-hand weed | April 11, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Fly me to the moon | Orca food | Deadly heat | Air-quality cancer | Conservation CO2 | Hares’ bad hair | Trusty robots | April 4, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Indigenous horses | Oilsand earthquake | Sea ice deadline | Logging salmon | Drug-resistant dog worm | Dino lippy | March 28, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Farmers’ new friend | Orca inbreeding | Caribou habitat | Toxic food labels | Stroke vs sleep | Heat dome riskiness | March 21, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

COVID mental health vs suicide | ON on meth | Climate doom | Marauding spiders | Arctic rivers | Smokin’ athletes | March 14, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Long COVID’s long reach | Ineffective border closures | Sea cats | 300-year whale tale | Moose CO2 | High beauty bar | March 7, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Orca parenting pilot whale | Boreal smoke & growth | Plankton booming blooms | Able sea stars | Drs’ reduced hours | February 28, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Formula health claims | Salmon size-ism | Traffic, in plants | Cosmic web shaking | Black hole, dark energy | February 21, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Woodwide web revisited | 3000-year caribou habit | Ice-dam flood cometh | “Blob”-driven sea urchins | Memory app | February 14, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

City bees rumble | Bird roosts | Jellies sink C02 | Orca moms | Infant brains on screen | COVID deer reservoirs | February 7, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Microplastics & fish virus | Traffic brain | Upward-invading aliens | Eavesdropping on ET | High cost of sitting | January 31, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>