Research
Project aims to show it’s possible to remove gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere and store it beneath the seabed.
A new Canada Foundation for Innovation survey finds that while young people generally trust science, action is still needed to improve literacy.
‘We need more breakthrough technologies, and we need more ideas,’ says one chemical engineer.
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.
The Earthquake Engineering Research Facility is studying the dangers of seismic instability.
Marine biologist Shane Gero studies how sperm whales live. Now he wants to know what they are talking about.
Quebec adventurers spent months crossing Canada from north to south while participating in three research projects.
After prolonged delays, many academics are hoping to restart their stalled research projects.
Computer scientists and statisticians are starting to create datasets that mimic important properties of the real thing, which could help ease privacy concerns.
COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’
A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.
Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.
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.
Using campus as testing grounds, WATonoBus pushes limits of autonomous transit.
Risk assessments required to apply for NSERC’s Alliance Grants program, federal government announces
Guidelines to be expanded to other granting agencies in the near future.
A look back at the WWII nuclear lab at the Université de Montréal.
Collective effort focused on holding companies in which universities invest, accountable and achieve sustainability goals.
Researchers won’t have to leave the country to perform experiments that allow them to see inside materials.
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.
Additional country-wide lab infrastructure and training capacity will allow researchers to be ‘ready to go.’