Research
The political and persuasive significance of being intentionally hard to understand.
In the 1950s, the Prairies were a hub for psychedelic science. Some 60 years later, Canadian researchers are showing a renewed interest in the therapeutic use of psychedelics.
The top three presentations at this year’s 3-Minute Thesis competition tackled chemotherapy, oil pipelines, and asphalt.
We can’t apply knowledge that we don’t have. And to have knowledge, we must create, reveal or discover it.
Many journals publish research that is based on the treatment of wild animals that would never be allowed in a laboratory setting.
Research-creation involves researchers who are also pursuing creative activities such as music, dance or design.
Many Canadian researchers are coming together in different organizational structures to study issues surrounding AI ethics and governance.
Researchers now have access to a flood of educational data on students that they hope will offer insights on how to improve the learning experience. Will it work?
Recognizing the symptoms is the first step in treating the problem.
The work “will hugely advance our capacity to understand species interactions and … the impacts of human activities,” says director Paul Hebert.
The country’s various research and policy institutes “are highly adept at getting their messages heard in today’s crowded ideas marketplace,” says one expert.
In Chess for Life, students learn about decision-making and relationships as part of a game-based sentencing program.
About 85 percent of the world’s refugees can be found in the global south while most refugee research is based out of the global north; a Canadian study aims to bridge that gap.
The organization was founded in 2007 by retired Canadian Forces General Roméo Dallaire.
Researcher Marie-Ève Maillé discusses her legal battle and the lessons she has learned from it.
Thanks to internet-enabled technologies and citizen scientists, ecologists now have access to more data than ever before.
“There is very little that can’t be translated into dance,” says U of Alberta physicist Pramodh Senarath Yapa, who took home “best overall” in Science’s Dance Your PhD contest.
After years of collecting anecdotal data, UNB professor Eric Weissman is leading a study to bring the issue of student homelessness out of the shadows.
Researchers from numerous disciplines have begun to investigate the heavy toll that loneliness takes on society.
The Concordia research facility is the first of its kind in Canada, and one of about 15 labs in the world to specialize in the automated assembly of DNA parts.