Science

The growing replication crisis plaguing our papers

A brief look at how computation has changed the face of drug discovery

On November 9, 2020, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced that their vaccine candidate against COVID-19 was found to be successful in Phase 3 trials. Shortly after, on December 21, Ontario hospital Trillium Health Partners administered their first COVID-19 vaccine in the Peel Region.  The rapid development of Trillium Health Partners’ vaccine clinic can be attributed

The science behind burnout

In many ways, medicine represents an intersection of myriad disciplines, requiring practitioners to possess an extensive curriculum that stretches across the likes of biochemistry, pharmacology, psychology, and sociology. Altogether, a variety of knowledge ensures that physicians are able not only to treat patients for their immediate cause of visiting the clinic, but also to act

Although modern science has become synonymous with experimentation, many historical records reflect a different narrative. Prior to the 1600s, the dominant epistemology relied on ordinary observation and common sense. Aristotelians accepted ancient authority without proof, observed nature in its pure state, and inferred general axioms from specific observations through deductive reasoning. However, as science strayed

The psychology of returning to face-to-face social interactions

How will herd immunity, variants, and indoor classes shape our school year?

Navigating a return to in-person research