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A University of Alberta team has made an important breakthrough in the race to find a viable replacement for supply of technetium-99m, an important isotope produced by Canada's Chalk River reactor.

Physicist John P. Davis is counting the days until he takes delivery of equipment that will give the University of Alberta the distinction of having the coldest laboratory in Canada.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget the Big Bang theory on the origins of the universe.

WASHINGTON -- Our culture of sitting may be responsible for 173,000 cases of cancer each year, according to new estimates. Physical inactivity is linked to as many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer a year in the United States, said Christine Friedenreich, an epidemiologist at Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care in Canada. [More]

Royal Dutch Shell PLC inked a deal Friday with the Canadian government to develop technology to control oil emissions. The province of Alberta announced it would provide C$745 million to test carbon capture and sequestration technology on Shell's Scotford Upgrader, which is similar to a refinery for processing heavy oil.