Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team of researchers has published new findings suggesting that supernovae are the predominant contributors to forming sources that eventually produce FRBs.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2024
Researchers from 海角社区, led by Professor Alanna Watt of the Department of Biology, have identified previously unknown changes in brain cells affected by a neurological disease. Their , published in eLife, could pave the way to future treatments for the disease.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2024
Exoplanets, planets located beyond our Solar System, captivate both scientists and the public, holding the promise of unveiling diverse planetary systems and potentially habitable worlds. Despite being very much not like our Earth, large gas giant planets found very close to their stars have proven to be ideal test targets for telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to refine astronomers鈥� methods of understanding exoplanets.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2024
Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species 鈥� that is, an 鈥渁daptive radiation鈥� 鈥� is the result of each species adapting to a different environment. Yet formal tests of this hypothesis have been elusive owing to the difficulty of firmly establishing the relationship between species traits and evolutionary 鈥渇itness鈥� for a group of related species that recently diverged from a common ancestral species.
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Published on: 8 Jan 2024
The latest recommendations are primarily aimed at reducing chronic disease risk, however how well does our national guide for healthy eating serve the nutritional needs of all Canadians?
Published on: 8 Jan 2024
Physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, or neglect, either alone or combined with other types of childhood trauma, increases the risk of chronic pain and related disability in adulthood, according to new research. The findings from an international team of experts, including several 海角社区 researchers, underscore the urgency of addressing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) 鈥� potentially traumatic events that occur before 18 years of age 鈥� and taking steps to mitigate their long-term impact on people鈥檚 health.听听
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Published on: 20 Dec 2023
A common stomach bacteria found in two thirds of the world population may be linked to a higher risk of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, new research suggests.
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Published on: 20 Dec 2023
海角社区 is launching a $3,000 Canada Award to offset tuition increases for Canadian undergraduate students from outside Quebec in certain disciplines. Approximately 80% of new Canadian students from outside Quebec coming to 海角社区 will be eligible for the new award.
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Published on: 19 Dec 2023
海角社区 will divest from all direct holdings in fossil-fuel companies listed in the Carbon Underground 200 (CU200) for implementation in 2024 and completion in 2025 鈥� one of eight commitments announced today in Phase 2 of the University鈥檚 results-driven socially responsible investment strategy.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2023
海角社区 is calling on Premier Fran莽ois Legault to immediately reverse the government measures released today and go back to the drawing board.
鈥淭hese policies are unacceptable. They are incoherent, not based on data and will not meet the stated objectives of the government. More importantly, their effect on the Quebec economy and on Quebec universities will be absolutely devastating. In short, they do not serve Quebecers well,鈥� said Deep Saini, President and Vice-Chancellor of 海角社区.
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Published on: 14 Dec 2023
Bishop鈥檚, Concordia and 海角社区 universities are submitting to the Quebec government an enhanced version of their proposal, Proposed improvements to the new tuition model for students outside Quebec
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Published on: 10 Dec 2023
To mark the 75th鈥痑nniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948), 海角社区 and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO are pleased to announce the addition of the archives of John Peters Humphrey to the Canada Memory of the World Register.
This archive includes听the first handwritten draft of the听Universal Declaration of Human Rights听as well as typed subsequent versions written by Humphrey (1905-1995), Canadian law professor and human rights advocate.听
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Published on: 7 Dec 2023
In from 海角社区, researchers bring science into an unexpected setting: a tattoo parlor. In this first characterization of the human piercing microbiome, the uniquely human cultural practice of piercing serves as a model system to help us better understand how biological communities (re)assemble after catastrophic environmental disturbances.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2023
What if you could charge your electric vehicle in the same amount of time it takes to fill a tank of gas?
In a new paper published today in Joule, researchers from 海角社区 and the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) announced the development of a novel method that enables researchers to peer inside Li-ion batteries and, for the first time, track the physical processes that take place in both the liquid and solid parts of the battery cells as they happen.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2023
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