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BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | February 15 2022

Project aims to show it’s possible to remove gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere and store it beneath the seabed.

BY HANNAH LIDDLE | February 04 2022

A new Canada Foundation for Innovation survey finds that while young people generally trust science, action is still needed to improve literacy.

BY ELIZABETH HOWELL | February 03 2022

‘We need more breakthrough technologies, and we need more ideas,’ says one chemical engineer.

BY JENNIFER QUESNEL | January 19 2022

Home to one of Canada’s only Level 3 biosafety labs, VIDO was one of the first in the country to isolate SARS-CoV-2.

BY ERIKA THORKELSON | January 18 2022

The Earthquake Engineering Research Facility is studying the dangers of seismic instability.

BY BECKY RYNOR | January 11 2022

Marine biologist Shane Gero studies how sperm whales live. Now he wants to know what they are talking about.

BY PIERRE BLAIS | January 10 2022

Quebec adventurers spent months crossing Canada from north to south while participating in three research projects.

BY KERRY BANKS | January 05 2022

After prolonged delays, many academics are hoping to restart their stalled research projects.

BY DIANE PETERS | December 13 2021

Computer scientists and statisticians are starting to create datasets that mimic important properties of the real thing, which could help ease privacy concerns.

BY BLANE HARVEY, ALAIN BOURQUE, YING SYUAN HUANG & ANNE DEBRABANDERE | November 05 2021

COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’

BY KERRY BANKS | October 21 2021

A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.

BY DIANE PETERS | October 20 2021

Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.

BY LAURA BEAULNE-STUEBING | August 31 2021

Funded by the University of Northern British Columbia and the Hakai Institute, the powerful set of computers show the mass loss of Earth’s glaciers has increased at unexpected rates.

BY IAN MUNROE | August 30 2021

Using campus as testing grounds, WATonoBus pushes limits of autonomous transit.

BY MICHEL PROULX | July 13 2021

Guidelines to be expanded to other granting agencies in the near future.

BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | June 23 2021

A look back at the WWII nuclear lab at the Université de Montréal.

BY SHARON ASCHAIEK | May 10 2021

Collective effort focused on holding companies in which universities invest, accountable and achieve sustainability goals.

BY DIANE PETERS | May 05 2021

Researchers won’t have to leave the country to perform experiments that allow them to see inside materials.

BY KERRY BANKS | May 04 2021

Not only is it a myth that Canada has an abundance of readily accessible water, say researchers, but we’re poorly managing what we do have.

BY WENDY GLAUSER | March 31 2021

Additional country-wide lab infrastructure and training capacity will allow researchers to be ‘ready to go.’