The innovative project from New Brunswick in this year’s national SABC final shows how carbon emissions from potatoes can be used to increase the growth of cyanobacteria (aka ‘pond scum’), the oil in which is a biofuel. For Lee Nicholas, 17, there never was a time when the three R’s of reduce, reuse, recycle, weren’t [...]

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Fredericton student creates new method to study health risks of chemicals Bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical additive found in plastic products, has been much in news when Canada became the first country to ban the chemical in baby bottles last year. Found in such everyday products as plastic water bottles, its possible health effects [...]

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