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Publishing date: May 19, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 3 minute read •
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Dr. Jeff Schoenau isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. He owns and operates a grain farm near Central Butte, Saskatchewan and has been working as a soil scientist for the University of Saskatchewan (USask) for 33 years.
In a paper published today in the Canadian Journal of Soil Science, PhD student Noabur Rahman, Schoenau and colleagues Drs. Derek Peak and Ryan Hangs collected and analyzed soil from across the prairies including samples from Schoenau’s own farm.
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The study, which offers recommendations for improving fertilizer use and increasing crop yields for farmers, builds on previous studies Schoenau and Peak have completed as collaborators at Canadian Light Source (CLS) at USask. Schoenau considers some of their work done on the HXMA and VLS-PGM beamlines at the CLS to be ground-breaking. “There are not a lot of folks that have used these techniques to study the fate of some of these nutrient elements in the soil environment as applied in the field,” said Schoenau. Using chemical analysis and synchrotron techniques, the team looked at soil micronutrients in soil samples from Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
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When you save an image to your smartphone, those data are written onto tiny transistors that are electrically switched on or off in a pattern of bits to represent and encode that image. Most transistors today are made from silicon, an element that scientists have managed to switch at ever-smaller scales, enabling billions of bits, and therefore large libraries of images and other files, to be packed onto a single memory chip.
But growing demand for data, and the means to store them, is driving scientists to search beyond silicon for materials that can push memory devices to higher densities, speeds, and security.
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Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are teaming up with employees at the Canadian Light Source and VIDO-InterVac to study the long-term effects of COVID-19.
Dr. Jake Pushie is used to studying strokes through his work with the College of Medicine’s Saskatchewan Cerebrovascular centre.
Pushie is now applying his expertise to look at what SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 do to blood vessels.
“A lot of what we were hearing sounded a lot to us like some of the things we’re used to studying using the synchrotron,” Pushie said of first hearing about terms like “brain fog” and other lingering neurocognitive issues after contracting COVID-19.
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