Category: Heads Up

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>  

Changing mountains | Arctic primates | Hybrid immunity is best | False COVID media balance | Otter-eating wolves | January 24, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

5th warmest year | Orca tissue-toxins | Ice roads melt | Cat motion | Better rapid COVID test | Long COVID stigma | January 17, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more> Edit Subject

Lost glaciers | April heatwaves | Wolverines down | Beringia & people | Top Arctic predators | Sponge vs COVID | January 10, 2023 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Santa’s coal | Bird strikes | Older-yet stone tools | Theropod food…and feet | Water worlds | COVID solution | December 20, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Heart heat deaths | Fjord storage | Real park use | Non-native bee threat | House cat #1 | Prone with COVID | December 13, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.   Read more>

Omicron origins | Climate change and animals | Geese are beating humans | SMCC Heads Up | December 6, 2022   – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Canadian COVID antibody levels | 2021 heat once/decade | 10% lower air pollution | Diving-bird dino | 8-cups myth | November 29, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Green energy C02 | Windfarms whack seabirds | Tick spread | COVID ’22 analyzed | Smokers’, moms’ weed woes | November 22, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

C02 emissions up | Deadly low-level pollution | Antarctic river | Fishfarm peak | Spidey sense | Lonely COVID | November 15, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Strep vax ignored | World COVID infections | Extreme weather ≠ policy change | Tuna up, sharks down | Octo-tossers | November 8, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Ending the COVID threat | Risk of severe COVID | “Code red” Earth | Tracking power plant emissions | November 1, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up   – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Narwhals at a sea-ice loss | Salmon fry food … & algae blooms | Racist housing policies | Tiresome tire particles | October 25, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Long-COVID strains | Plague impacts today | Worsening hurricanes | High Arctic pandemics | Shoreline happiness | October 18, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.