The Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced $1.4 billion in support of 11 large-scale research initiatives through the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) today at Concordia University in Montreal. The CFREF grants are awarded through a highly competitive process to the top programs in their fields.聽聽
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Published on: 28 Apr 2023
Astronomers from 成人VR视频 are part of an international team that has discovered 25 new sources of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs), these explosions in the sky that come from far beyond the Milky Way. This discovery brings the total number of confirmed FRB sources to 50.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2023
成人VR视频 has achieved the performance targets set out in its Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) strategy, a full two years ahead of schedule. This milestone is highlighted in the 2022 Investment Committee Report on Socially Responsible Investing, presented yesterday to the 成人VR视频 Board of Governors. This is the third annual report since the Board of Governors approved the five-year, eight-point鈥痠mplementation plan for decarbonizing the University鈥檚 endowment portfolio in April 2020.聽
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Published on: 21 Apr 2023
Despite extensive research and encouraging findings, Alzheimer鈥檚 disease (AD) remains difficult to diagnose based on signs and symptoms alone. But what if one day, a blood sample during an annual check-up could be used to identify the disease? A has found that a new kind of blood test is as effective at detecting AD as lumbar punctures, one of the current methods used to diagnose AD.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2023
成人VR视频 and the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al (UQAM) announced today the creation of the Research and Innovation Chair in Animal Welfare and Artificial Intelligence (WELL-E). The five-year, $5 million Chair will carry out a major research project funded by a grant from NSERC Alliance and PROMPT, fiduciary of the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy. Important contributions have also been made by industrial partners Novalait, Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC), Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO), Les Producteurs de Lait du Qu茅bec (PLQ), and Lactanet.
Published on: 19 Apr 2023
For years, pollinator declines have been a pressing issue for ecosystem health and food security in the face of climate change and human impacts on the environment. Even in their sleep, pollinating insects cannot catch a break 鈥� for fear they鈥檒l be taken down by a small, but mighty predator: the candy-striped spider. Research published in Ecology took a closer look into this spider鈥檚 behaviour and found that the result of their stealth attacks could have substantial impacts on ecosystems.
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Published on: 19 Apr 2023
Nurses exposed to 40 minutes of bright light before their night shifts feel less fatigued and make fewer errors at work, according to a study led by 成人VR视频. The nurses also slept better after their shifts.
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Published on: 19 Apr 2023
Thirty students from 10 countries will form the first global cohort of McCall MacBain Scholars at 成人VR视频, arriving in September 2023.
Designed to encourage purposeful leadership, the scholarships are the result of a landmark $200 million gift in 2019 by John and Marcy McCall MacBain, the second-largest single donation in Canadian history.
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Published on: 18 Apr 2023
Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it鈥檚 known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know much less about the feeding habits of those found throughout the North Atlantic. Thanks to a new technique developed by a research team led by 成人VR视频, it is now possible to quantify, for the first time, the proportion of different prey that killer whales in the North Atlantic are eating by studying the fatty acid patterns in their blubber.
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Published on: 14 Apr 2023
An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the 鈥渃osmic dawn鈥� 鈥� the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.
A team of scientists from across North America, Europe, and South Africa has doubled the sensitivity of a radio telescope called the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (). With this breakthrough, they hope to peer into the secrets of the early universe.
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Published on: 12 Apr 2023
Teens in North America are spending several hours per day on screens, and there鈥檚 growing concern over how social media may affect their mental health.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2023
At the recent COP 15 conference in Montreal, Canada committed to protecting 30% of its land by 2030, but which areas are most crucial to protect for at-risk species such as the spotted turtles? In published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, 成人VR视频 researchers overlayed maps of species at risk to find hotspots where many species live together. They found that hotspots often overlap.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2023
成人VR视频 is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2023 Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement among those who share their knowledge on a vast range of subjects with the public and the media. This year, there were applicants from 10 of the 11 faculties, a sign that sharing knowledge and a love of learning is becoming increasingly embedded in the 成人VR视频 DNA.
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Published on: 29 Mar 2023
Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people鈥檚 perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.
The research, led by Nicolas Ajzenman, a professor of economics at 成人VR视频, shows that while migrants don鈥檛 cause crime rates to increase, false perceptions endure anyway.
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Published on: 29 Mar 2023
Scientists have gained new insights into the part of the brain that gives us a sense of direction, by tracking neural activity with the latest advances in brain imaging techniques. The findings shed light on how the brain orients itself in changing environments 鈥� and even the processes that can go wrong with degenerative diseases like dementia, that leave people feeling lost and confused.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2023
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