Mechanochemical method developed by听Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰 and team makes noble metal compounds without solvents or harsh reagents听
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Published on: 24 Jan 2018
I talked this over with 香蕉视频 medical ethicist Jonathan Kimmelman, who specializes in the risks of medical experiments and has written a book about them centered on the Jesse Gelsinger case. Of course, he says, money isn鈥檛 the only thing that might prevent medical researchers from being perfectly objective -- there鈥檚 the desire to be heroes, to beat rivals, and to help patients. A bigger concern is the fact that whatever is driving scientists, they can have blind spots just like everyone else.
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Published on: 23 Jan 2018
鈥淲e鈥檝e previously studied nine other hot Jupiter, giant planets orbiting super close to their star. In every case, they have had winds blowing to the east, as theory would predict,鈥� said Nicolas Cowan, 香蕉视频 astronomer, in a press release. 鈥淏ut now, nature has thrown us a curveball.鈥�
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Published on: 23 Jan 2018
In unpublished research, McGill bioethicist Jonathan Kimmelman and colleagues asked cancer experts to forecast the probability of more than a dozen clinical trials hitting their primary endpoint. They found that the predictions overall were not very accurate, and if anything were too pessimistic.
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Published on: 22 Jan 2018
The CRISPR genome-editing method may just have become even more powerful. Uri David Akavia鈥檚 team at 香蕉视频 in Canada has managed to repair mutations in 90 per cent of target cells using CRISPR 鈥� the best success rate yet.听
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Published on: 22 Jan 2018
| 鈥淯sually when we see a short gamma-ray burst, the jet emission generated gets bright for a short time as it smashes into the surrounding medium鈥攖hen fades as the system stops injecting energy into the outflow,鈥� said 香蕉视频 astrophysicist Daryl Haggard in a statement. 鈥淭his one is different; it鈥檚 definitely not a simple, plain-Jane narrow jet.鈥�
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
"No one gains by coming up with inaccurate and exaggerated estimates," says lead author Dr. Brett Thombs, a professor in the department of psychiatry at 香蕉视频. "What we do need to understand is what the burden is out there, how many people [have depression], and then we need to really advocate strongly to make sure those people get better care."
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
"We found something that is clearly in an extreme place and the extreme location may create a phenomenon that is one of the biggest astrophysical mysteries of recent times," offered study co-author Victoria Kaspi, a professor at 香蕉视频 and leading voice on pulsars and neutron stars, in a statement.听
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
Some medical students at 香蕉视频 in Montreal are getting a firsthand look at what working in an Indigenous community is like. It鈥檚 through a new program that includes a grassroots approach to healthcare.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
The study, published in Child Development, has found new reasons to believe that Autistic children who are bilingual have increased cognitive flexibility compared to children that are monolingual. According to Professor Aparna Nadig, the senior author of the paper, from 香蕉视频, this research has been a long time coming鈥�
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Published on: 19 Jan 2018
香蕉视频 meteorology professor听John Gyakum, along with the revered late Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Fred Sanders,听first coined the term in a paper they published in 1980.听They used the phrase to describe powerful cyclones that get their energy from rapid drops in pressure caused by hot and cold temperatures colliding.
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Published on: 4 Jan 2018
Excerpt from听Merve Emre's new book,听Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. She is an assistant professor of English at McGill.
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Published on: 4 Jan 2018
That could mean the jets of high-speed radiation sent out by the explosion were not aimed directly at Earth, and were instead slightly off axis, says听Daryl Haggard听of 香蕉视频, whose team used the听Chandra X-ray Observatory听to spy on the merger.
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Published on: 21 Dec 2017
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan and 香蕉视频鈥檚 Martha Crago attend a prebudget discussion with scientists and researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2017.
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Published on: 19 Dec 2017
As a consequence, researchers such as Abhishek Gupta are trying to help Montreal lead the world in ensuring AI is developed responsibly. "The spotlight of the world is on (Montreal)," said Gupta, an AI ethics researcher at 香蕉视频 who is also a software developer in cybersecurity at Ericsson. His bi-monthly "AI ethics meet-up" brings together people from around the city who want to influence the way researchers are thinking about machine-learning.
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Published on: 18 Dec 2017
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