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Wave World Can a singer smash a glass using sound waves?
Jon Chase challenges young opera singers in Cardiff to smash glasses with their voices. After measuring the natural frequency of the glass, can the singers match it with enough power to smash it? The results are spectacular slowed down 300 times. Smashing things with sound waves isn’t just for fun. In medicine, sound waves can smash painful, hard growths inside ...
- 2015
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- Added on: 09/04/2019
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The Nature of Things Something in the Air
For a Canadian family living in Beijing, putting on face-masks to guard against smog is part of the morning routine. In China, air pollution causes more than 3,000 premature deaths every day. And cities across Asia and Europe — including London and Paris — now have to ban downtown traffic to manage their “Airpocalypse” days. But what about here at ...
- 2019
- 00:44:09
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/13/2019
The National Nova Scotia's presumed consent for organ donation explained
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil tabled legislation that will make the province the first jurisdiction in North America to have presumed consent for organ and tissue donation. People will be able to opt out of donating their organs, but the onus will be on them to do so once the bill is proclaimed.
- 2019
- 00:02:22
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/02/2019
The National Robot-assisted surgery brings precision, problems
Robot-assisted surgery is revolutionizing the medical industry, with the first such procedure performed in Canada earlier this year, but there are still concerns around the risks and the costs.
- 2019
- 00:02:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/04/2019
The National B.C. measles outbreak has some kids taking their health into their own hands
Some 33 students and staff at the centre of a measles outbreak in Vancouver have been ordered to stay home because they haven't provided proof of vaccination. This has some B.C. kids taking their health into their own hands.
- 2019
- 00:03:14
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- Added on: 03/25/2019
The National ADHD drugs being over-prescribed to Quebec teens, doctors warn
Quebec doctors warn ADHD drugs are being over-prescribed to teens at twice the rate of any other province, leading to potentially harmful long-term effects.
- 2019
- 00:02:20
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/12/2019
Enquête Breast implants: The trouble is under the skin
Thousands of Canadian women have had silicone breast implant surgery. Apart from some known complications, next-generation implants, approved by Health Canada in 2006, were said to be safe. Yet in recent years thousands of women have had their implants removed because of various problems. New studies have shown that silicone implants are linked to the development of autoimmune diseases and ...
- 2018
- 00:40:35
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/11/2019
The Nature of Things The Genetic Revolution
Trailblazing scientists are making ground-breaking discoveries in the rapidly evolving world of genetic engineering. Technologies like CRISPR are making it possible to quickly and cheaply change the DNA of all living things, including humans. Today, genes can be edited almost as easily as words on a computer screen. This new ability to alter our DNA holds the promise of curing ...
- 2018
- 00:45:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/27/2018
The Nature of Things The Memory Mirage
Memory is under heavy scrutiny by a new generation of scientists — and they’re posing an uncomfortable question: Can we trust what we remember about our lives? Just as we often recall someone’s name incorrectly, scientists say we can misremember critical personal events, catastrophes and even crimes we think we saw committed. Recent studies are questioning the fragile unreliability of ...
- 2018
- 00:45:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/22/2018
The National Choosing death earlier than planned
A Nova Scotia woman who has chosen a medically assisted death says Canada's new law is too extreme and unfair. She says she's now forced to make the difficult choice to end her life earlier than she'd like.
- 2018
- 00:02:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/06/2018
The National Scientists develop patch to detect meat contaminated with E. coli
Scientists at McMaster University are developing a transparent patch to detect meat contaminated with E. coli.
- 2018
- 00:02:09
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- Added on: 11/06/2018
The National Scientists concerned Alzheimer's research will fail
A series of failed drug trials have experts fearing they may be back to square one when it comes to treating the disease.
- 2018
- 00:06:25
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/15/2018
The National Experimental no longer: How immunotherapy is changing cancer treatment
Immunotherapy boosts the immune system or helps the immune system to find cancer and attack it.
- 2018
- 00:06:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/15/2018
Découverte Face Transplant
Face Transplant chronicles an extraordinary surgical success story: the first complete face transplant ever performed in Canada. With just a 50 percent chance of success, medical teams spent 15 months planning every part of the 35-hour operation, consulting with experts, weighing the risks and searching for a donor. From research to recovery, Face Transplant offers viewers an inside look at this remarkable journey, ...
- 2018
- 00:49:51
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/11/2018
The National Doctors want Canadians' medical records to be more accessible
Doctors want Canadians' medical records to be more accessible, via so-called patient portals. The online portal allows patients and authorized users to access their medical history — including blood tests, X-rays, scans and medications.
- 2018
- 00:03:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/12/2018
The National Girls shouldn't head soccer balls: study
Researchers looked at nearly 100 amateur players using a special MRI. They found damaged brain tissue was five times worse in female players.
- 2018
- 00:02:11
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- Added on: 09/12/2018
The National Parenting in Canada: The struggle of surrogacy and in vitro fertilization
The National looks at the struggles prospective Canadian parents face with both options.
- 2018
- 00:05:28
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/12/2018
The National Preventing teen pregnancies: IUDs recommended over pills
Analysis by the Canadian Paediatric Society shows intra-uterine devices are more effective than the pill in preventing pregnancy.
- 2018
- 00:04:40
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/27/2018
The National Queen honours Canadian for making prosthetics for refugees
Queen Elizabeth honoured a young Canadian for her work in making prosthetics for refugees. Midia Shikh Hassan, a Syrian-Canadian, was given the Queen's Young Leader Award in London. She's worked to develop 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for refugees in camps. The prosthetics only cost $20 to produce, much less than previous alternatives.
- 2018
- 00:03:30
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/23/2018
The Nature of Things The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World
It was fungi that brought life back to Earth after the last mass extinction event and their untapped powers could help our species to survive on our increasingly poisoned, depleted and hotter planet. By looking at fungi in the context of evolution and natural history, scientists are making discoveries that will change our lives. Some fungi will save us, others ...
- 2018
- 00:45:01
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/17/2018
The National Canadian hospital takes action to prevent delirium
The Hamilton Health Sciences Centre is taking action to try and prevent delirium before the condition takes hold of the patient. It's being done using a program developed in the U.S. called the Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP). Each year in Canada 200,000 people who go to hospital may experience delirium, a serious disturbance in mental ability that can leave ...
- 2018
- 00:06:37
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- Added on: 04/13/2018
The National Career-ending injuries affect musicians too
Career-ending injuries aren't exclusive to athletes — severe back, neck or arm injuries can also have a serious impact on musicians. There is a solution though: a unique Canadian clinic helps make sure the world's best musicians don't have to play through the pain.
- 2018
- 00:04:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/03/2018
The National Children with ADHD move twice as much when learning, tests show
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may fidget and move around because it helps them learn complex material, research suggests.
- 2017
- 00:01:47
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- Added on: 02/12/2018
CBC Docs POV Inseparable: Ten Years Joined at the Head
Tatiana and Krista Hogan are extraordinary little girls. Conjoined twins are a rarity, but those joined at the head, craniopagus twins, are the rarest of all — one in 2.5 million. But it is the structure of their brains that makes them unique in the world. They have the astonishing ability to see through each others’ eyes, feel what the ...
- 2017
- 00:44:09
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- Added on: 12/06/2017
CBC Docs POV Sickboy
Follow 29-year-old yoga instructor Jeremie Saunders as he lives openly with cystic fibrosis (CF) and looks for ways to remove the stigma attached to chronic illness and disease. Jeremie has grown up in Halifax dealing with CF, with a daily routine that involves using an atomizer and taking dozens of prescription pills. But he keeps a positive outlook and chooses ...
- 2017
- 00:44:12
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/30/2017
